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Same in SC but the curfews are earlier. 6pm during daylight savings and 8pm when it's not. (or maybe the other way around? Whenever it's lighter longer you can stay later.) But it's pretty easy to get around it with a form/letter submitted by your employer or coach saying you had to drive for work/practice beyond those hours. And the time frame is a little different. 15 for written test, then you can take the road test after 6 months and completed driver training course. So you can drive by yourself potentially at 15 and a half with your "restricted". That's when your time restrictions kick in. Then with no points on your license or accidents it becomes a full license in a year, I believe. Maybe 17.
Either way, you can drive pretty young in SC. But the road test is a little harder.
Back in my day, you could get your restricted license 3 months after getting your permit...so 15 and 3 months.
Back in my older sister's day (but actually not because the cut off was June 30 and her birthday is July 9) you could get your license either 2 weeks or 3 weeks after getting your permit.
It is the worse! I don't understand why its such a large part of the test, I would rather park 2 blocks away from where I'm going then parallel park.
And I don't blame you I feel like anyone teaching someone else to drive just gets crazy. The second time I failed the woman asked if I had even practiced all sassy like and I told her "Iv already failed, Get out of my car." whoops.
Where I live you can start taking drivers ed at 14, then once you've completed all of it you take a written test at 15 for your permit, and you can take your road test for a license at 16. But you have restrictions for 6 months, I think its like you can drive from 6am to 10pm and you can only have 1 non family member in your car.
I actually ended up being a very good parallel parker...with the exception of sometimes in Charleston you have to parallel park to the left instead of the right and it just throws me off. I literally can't flip things around..... Like in cheerleading if they ever made us do the routine facing a different direction, I was the girl running to the wrong spots.