Before You Start to Drive

How Can You Prepare to Drive?

Do Your Homework

  • Learn about BC’s licensing process, which has special rules for teens. Designed to gradually develop your driving skills, the program will take a year or more to complete
  • Learn about the financial and legal responsibilities associated with driving
  • Talk to your parents, they have lots of driving experience to share with you

Be a Smart Passenger

  • Always wear your seat belt
  • Observe other drivers, roadway conditions, traffic signs and signals
  • Ask your parents questions about decisions they make behind the wheel
  • Even if the law allows you to ride with teen drivers, avoid riding with your friends until they become more experienced drivers
  • Don’t distract the driver or encourage them to take risks

If you’re the passenger of a friend who is texting, speeding, or otherwise behaving recklessly, speak up. Tell your friend to drive safely or ask to be dropped off.

By visiting this site and looking around, you’ve already taken a first step to get ready to drive.

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