Teen Driver Launch: Permit, Supervised Hours, Road Test, and the Insurance Decision

  1. Pull Your State’s Current GDL Requirements
    45 min

    All 50 states and the District of Columbia run the same three-stage graduated system — learner permit, intermediate or provisional license, full license — but every number inside it is set by your state, not by Washington. Minimum licensing ages run from 14½ in South Dakota to 17 in New Jersey, so advice written for a relative in another state can be off by two full years.

    Work from one source only: your state’s driver licensing agency (called the DMV, BMV, DPS or something else depending on the state). Its teen-driver or graduated-licensing page carries the current ages, hours and fees; blogs and forum threads carry last decade’s.