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Understanding Driving Laws and Learner's Permits: A Guide for Young Drivers

This guide covers essential information about obtaining a learner's permit and driver's license for teens, including age requirements and restrictions. Learn the rules for driving with a permit, the process to get a full license at 16, and the limitations for hardship licenses at 14 or 15. Understand the importance of seatbelt laws, texting and driving regulations, speed limits, and the consequences for violating traffic laws. Discover terms like joyriding and street racing, and explore how to stay safe and legal on the road.

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Understanding Driving Laws and Learner's Permits: A Guide for Young Drivers

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  1. Driving Culture

  2. Learner’s Permit/ Driver’s License • 15 years old you take a test for to get this permit. • After you obtain the permit you can drive as long as there is a parent in the car with you • When you turn 16, you can take the driving test so you can drive alone

  3. Hardship • You can get your license at 14 or 15 but it is very restricted. • Valid only for pre-authorized locations (school or work). • Passengers limited to family members only. • A mileage limitation to each drive. • Tennessee, for example, imposes a limitation of 25 miles per way. • Valid only during daylight hours.

  4. Joyriding The action or practice of driving fast and dangerously for enjoyment, especially in a stolen car.

  5. Driving laws and Repercussions

  6. Seatbelt • If you anyone in the car doesn’t have a seatbelt on, a police officer can give you a big ticket

  7. Texting and Driving • In some states if you text and drive, you can receive a ticket. • Some states don’t even allow you to talk on the phone while you drive.

  8. Speed limit • If you do not obey the speed limit, you can receive a big ticket

  9. Radar detector • An electronic device used by motorists to detect if their speed is being monitored by police or law enforcement using a radar gun. Most radar detectors are used so the driver can reduce the car's speed before being ticketed for speeding

  10. Red light • If you run through a red light you can be fined • No matter if you are a motorcyclist or a scooter • Some states even have a red light cameras and will take pictures of your car if you break the law while driving and send you a ticket in the mail.

  11. Turning signals • If you do not use your turning signals, you can be ticketed.

  12. Parking • If you park somewhere where you are not supposed to be parked or don’t pay for parking, you can be ticketed.

  13. Parking in a handicapped space • If you park in a handicap space and you don’t have a handicap sticker, you can receive a big ticket

  14. Car boot To fix a piece of equipment to the car's wheel because the car is illegally parked

  15. Car Sports

  16. Drag Racing • Type of car racing where one races in a straight line

  17. Nascar • The sport of car racing. Cars do laps around a racing track.

  18. Street racing • Illegal car racing on streets

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