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Good luck to you and others who are learning at the moment!

I have quite a few friends and classmates now who passed over the past academic year, and are driving about. I'm not 17 yet (I'll be 17 in December), so I have to wait a bit - I can't wait really. I've even been dreaming about driving (no joke) and it's happened more than once. I find it fascinating how I know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing within the car in my dreams (I don't know it yet in real life).

I heard recently however that the age you can learn to drive in the UK will be moved up to 21 – I’m hoping it’s a possibility rather than a certainty, though. It’s probably because of maturity levels/numbers of careless driving cases, but either way I think it makes more sense to do it all at the end of compulsory education, rather than too late!