<p>lock your doors! </p>
<p>I lost 2 / 100 points...</p>
<p>In Texas, you don't even have to take a formal drivers ed class. You can order one of the "Parent Taught" Driver's Ed kits and have your parents teach you. To get your permit, you just have to pass a computer test. After 6 months, if they sign off that you're a competant driver, you get your license - no road test required.</p>
<p>That's kind of scary--no road test. I didn't ever take Driver's Ed, but I think I actually learned better with my parents than I would have with the class. To get through the learner's permit stage in WV, you either take driver's ed, where you drive for roughly 20 minutes a week, one semester, or you have to log 30 hours with your parents-much more driving practice required. You take a written test before you even get the learning permit, then you take a road test to be able to drive on your own.</p>
<p>In Massachusetts, you take a competency test (what color is a stop sign?) to get your permit. Seriously, one of my questions was what NOT to do on a highway and one of the choices was weave in and out of traffic. How people fail this? The thought just boggles my mind...
The road test is also quite simple, yet about 3% of people fail it, more often than not for a stupid reason. (rolling stops, forgeting to look over shoulder when changing lanes).</p>