How many members of your family have drivers licences?

[DandyMaker]

Just 2

It does depend where you live up to a point. To those saying London, we live in a small city that’s well connected. Not London or Home Counties. It’s true to say drivers are not esp welcomed by some here.

Where I am you would struggle to get reliable public transport services, so to me a car is essential.

Same where MIL lives too, poor public transport, but she still refuses to drive and won't buy a car anyway, given she'd have to take it to a garage, for an MOT etc now that her DH isn't about as he used to do anything at all motor related.

In my family everyone over 17 except one aunt, one cousin (her daughter) and both of my late grandmothers. In DP's family absolutely everyone back to his great-grandparents drives/drove. He's Canadian and it's uncommon for anyone not to drive there, it would be difficult if not impossible to live in much of Canada without driving.

Everyone except MIL and 15 year old SS. My daughter passed when she was 17, I think it's really important even if you don't intend to have a car just yet.

Everyone over 17, bar one relative, but they’re an MP and a bit weird

Ummm, me and DH and our 2 DD (both 2 somethings,) can drive. DH passed at 18, me at 27, both DDs 4-5 years ago. A few months before lockdown thankfully, just a few months apart.

I have 5 cousins and a brother. 2 cousins cannot drive, never learned - aged 57 and 59 now (one female one male.) The other 3 cousins and my brother can drive. All learned/passed their test in their teens or 20s.

My 3 aunts and 3 uncles aged between 70 and 85 now can all drive except one (aunt.) The 2 aunts who can drive didn't learn til their 40s.

My parents died in the late noughties; Dad could drive, mum never learned.

All of us. My grandad has just stopped driving at 97 though

All people who are old enough to drive have had a licence except for DN who had learning to drive interrupted by COVID and MIL who never learned.

I have an Aunt who no longer drives due to Epilepsy but used to.

Everyone between the ages of 15 and 90 has both a license and their own car. Driving is absolutely essential where I live.

Everyone over 17.

Everyone in my household does (DH, me, DS, DD). The only person in my extended family who is old enough to but doesn’t is my dad who’s never learned

Everyone who is old enough to drive has a licence including the wider family apart from my 18 year old nephew as he is in a wheelchair so unable to drive and Dh’s grandma who is 93 - she has a licence but no longer drives.

4 out of 5 in our house. 25 year old lived away from home at the crucial time and has never got around to it. My late mum didn't drive, and my Dsis in her 50s doesn't drive because she failed her test several times and doesn't have the confidence sadly. Also sibling with epilepsy.

Everyone over 17 except my DD and one cousin around 50.
But I only passed around 8 months ago. Not through want of trying either. That was my last attempt, still don't know how the hell I managed it but I did, I used the same instructor and he said I was just completely different this time around.

Has it made my life easier? Yes, it has. I always knew it would, because I'm not stupid.

Was there some sort of magic that occurred that suddenly made me a different person when the examiner said I'd passed? No. I'm still the same person, it's not really affected anyone else's lives, just as not driving didn't affect them, both have only affected me predominantly.

I was independent before I passed and am independent now, it is actually possible to be independent without a driving licence, a bit more thought and planning is required (which is why I think it's funny when people call non drivers lazy) but it's not impossible as some people claim. And I'm not in London (or a city) either.

All adults other than my dsis who is not allowed on medical grounds but she did drive for years before she developed the condition she has.

In my entire known family everyone has a driving licence except my 95 yr old grandma and my sister’s partner. Convinced that is so he doesn't have to do anything

Not sure why you're asking, but all the adults in our family have a driving licence.

Every adult, in the whole extended family including 27 cousins

I can only think of one person in about 25 adults who doesn’t.

In the extended family of about 20 people aged from 20 to 86 all bar 2 of them can and do drive regularly. The 2 that can't are in their twenties and did have lessons without passing before they went to university in London and worked there afterwards, they haven't had more lessons and aren't interested.

All of them. Thinking about it I don't actually know anyone over the age of 20 that doesn't have a licence

Everyone over 18 except those who can't for medical reasons.

Everyone except my relatively new SIL and I thought she had a license until I recently found out she didn't.

I only passed at 40 a few years ago after many years of traumatic learning 😄

All.

Grandparents didn't but everyone else after them does/did