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On Wednesday, the state's Department of Driver Services released just how many teens had their permits upgraded since the road test waiver was announced last month: 19,483 teens.
1 posted on 05/07/2020 12:39:38 PM PDT by higgmeister
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Should have accompanied this with a statewide curfew on 16 year olds from !2AM Midnight to 11:59 PM.


2 posted on 05/07/2020 12:42:13 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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On Wednesday, the state's Department of Driver Services released just how many teens had their permits upgraded since the road test waiver was announced last month: 19,483 teens.

Heavens! THINK of the car insurance those parents have to pay and pay and pay.

3 posted on 05/07/2020 12:42:18 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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My wife said this was all over the local Atlanta news last night. She is really angry and embarrassed with our Governor Kemp.


4 posted on 05/07/2020 12:42:34 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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I suspect even less has been done with illegals in California getting driver’s licenses.


5 posted on 05/07/2020 12:43:20 PM PDT by CatOwner
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American drivers licenses come out of crackerjack boxes anyway. What we consider a driving test wouldn’t even get you a learners permit in Europe. Might as well skip em.


6 posted on 05/07/2020 12:43:30 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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Can the other 49 states refuse to allow these drivers to drive in their states?


7 posted on 05/07/2020 12:44:09 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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San Antonio, Houston and Dallas Drivers are horrible. Just horrible. But Atlanta drivers!? Whoa. Very dangerous. Crazy place.


8 posted on 05/07/2020 12:45:48 PM PDT by stanne
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What’s the problem, can’t the parents teach the kids?


10 posted on 05/07/2020 12:46:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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So they can put jobs and business on hold but still feel they must hand out unearned driver's licenses so kids can hit the road? Typical bureaucratic stupidity.
11 posted on 05/07/2020 12:48:08 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network)
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This is a big reason why our cars have dash cams. Since we took the gun safety courses and been to the range I realized if driving safety was taken half as seriously as firearms safety our insurance premiums would be like chump change.


12 posted on 05/07/2020 12:51:05 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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first they killed cursive.....now THIS???

No wonder our kids are all p**sies


14 posted on 05/07/2020 12:51:59 PM PDT by QualityMan
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Well, I did my driver’s test back in the late 60s, and it was pretty much a joke. Parallel park, drive about 50 yards down the street to a vacant parking lot, stop in a straight line from from 30mph or 35mph, 3 point turn. That was about it. Any meaningful test would take way too long to be practical.


16 posted on 05/07/2020 12:53:27 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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They should’ve done it via Skype.


17 posted on 05/07/2020 12:55:48 PM PDT by moovova
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Ok. This is just for information.

Both my kids got their licenses in Georgia. The state requires 40 hours of driving with 10 hours to be done during night time. There's a book used to record this driving activity and it is in almost all cases done with a parent as a passenger. We dod not allow our oldest child to teach the youngest, btw. Which means these kids are only going to be as good as the parents ability to teach their kids.

Wondering, guessing, if this situation required that book to be turned in as a condition of receiving the approved licenses.

20 posted on 05/07/2020 12:58:53 PM PDT by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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My son got his drivers license without a road test, in Texas, about 10 years ago.


25 posted on 05/07/2020 1:06:07 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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32 posted on 05/07/2020 1:17:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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How does this make any sense?


34 posted on 05/07/2020 1:32:42 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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“Here kid, you can now drive!”

“Now stay the flunk at home, there’s a virus!”


41 posted on 05/07/2020 1:54:49 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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Might be a good time for some elderly citizens to renew. During one of his radio commentaries in the seventies, Reagan talked about getting a license in his era and how much more complicated it is now. I’m not sure how much the drivers test adds to the process.


48 posted on 05/07/2020 2:11:24 PM PDT by MSF BU
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People drive like they do in Mexico anyway!


50 posted on 05/07/2020 3:25:05 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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