I was driving a John Deere tractor at 10 years old pulling peanut trailers. My brain can’t even go where this article takes us.
“I was driving a John Deere tractor at 10 years old pulling peanut trailers.”
Same here. Not peanut trailers, but tractor.
Also, starting about 13 would drive our 30 year old Land Rover Defender (with its ~85hp 4 cyl diesel engine) into “town” to get whatever. Mind you, DL age in Israel is 18. Speedometer was broken, but I suspect its top speed was 80kph, downhill.
I was (and am) still beyond scared driving in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and I was flying jets at 20.
Traffic has become marketedly worse in the USA, as well, with imported driving practices from China and South of the Rio Grande.
I was driving our 1946 Willys CJ2a at 10 on our Ranch. My kids both got their licenses ASAP which is 17 in New York. Can’t be under 18 without a 50 hour NYS approved course. I’m not sure if other states have raised their ages, but it’s not possible have anything other than a learners permit under 17 in NYS.
“””I was driving a John Deere tractor at 10 years old pulling peanut trailers. My brain can’t even go where this article takes us.”””
I am having the same brain freezes. I was driving a Farmall tractor at that age
I went to a county high school in Virginia. While I did not learn how to drive on a John Deere tractor, the vast majority of my classmates did. It was a piece of cake for them to get a license. And after getting their license, most of them got a license to drive a school bus. In my junior/senior high school years, my classmates were also the bus drives.
I used to go to the store and my friends house using Daddy’s 1951 GMC Four on the Floor pickup. I was 12. I had to sit on one pillow and put one behind my back to reach the pedals.