What's it take to get licensed where you ride?

MFP-Joe wrote:

Times have certainly changed here, too; the rules regarding driver's licenses that I wrote about reflect the current situation as of 2026. I got my license back in the mid-to-late 70s; back then, I only needed nine mandatory hours of actual car driving practice. As for the motorcycle, after just one hour, the instructor told me there was nothing left to teach me—I already handled the bike well enough (having spent plenty of time riding illegally on two wheels beforehand actually worked to my advantage there!). You could get away with that sort of thing back then, but nowadays they really insist on the full number of mandatory hours! A car license here now costs around 3,000 to 3,500 euros—or easily much more if the student is clumsy... It’s a crazy world, especially since there are more total morons on the road these days than earlier there used to be... must be some kind of virus
 

TexasKZ wrote:

Soooo, much more onerous testing and an insane pricing structure = more morons on the road?? Other than increasing the wealth and intrusiveness of the government, what is the point of such a system?