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Originally Posted by The_Blur
Are there any Germans who would like to give some feedback on how they learned?
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you have to go to a real school for several weeks. twice a week you sit in a classroom with a bunch of other people and you work together with an instructor on a book and video-samples of different traffic-situations. they even teach you how to read the correct tire pressure on a tire and stuff. then after you've passed a test you get to the actual driving-part. you have to spend a certain amount of hours (two hours a day for example) with your instructor driving in the city, on the autobahn and at nighttime before you can take the driving-test. the instructor gets to decide when you are ready to take the test, so some people might have to take more practice-hours than others.
i don't remember exactly how much my license was, but i think it was about 1500eur (about $2100) right after i turned 18 in 2002.
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btw, In germany, if you fail the first test (before you get to actually learn how to drive) three times you have to take what we call the "idiot's test", officially called a
Medical Psychological Assessment 