What can i do to convince my father to let me get a driver's permit/ the Restricted? ?

Question

So ya my dad is a hard head that says that if i get it it will cost a lot of insurance. I'm 16 and live in Miami, Florida. Please i realy want this. Oh and any other information about getting the permit.

Answer 1

Start looking for part-time jobs within walking distance so you can pay at least part of the increase in insurance.  Call the insurance company and ask about possible discounts.  It also couldn't hurt to find out how much the increase is.  Tell him you'll be able to run some errands for him so he can do something else (the problem with this is then you have to actually do it).

If you take the initiative on finding a solution to his protest, it may help sway his opinion.

For the other information, go down to the Department of Licensing and see what information booklets/pamphlets they have.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I don't have any Florida drivers' info to offer.  However, as someone who doesn't drive, I'll tell you its a pain especially now.  Until now, I haven't needed a car for much and got by without one--but I've always lived in a city with good public transportation too.  Not knowing how to drive has limited and continues to limit where I can live.  My parents are now also elderly and, wisely, have given up driving except to the grocery store and although I only live about 50 miles from them, there aren't any trains, buses or boats that go to their area and I only get to see them when one of my siblings has room in his or her car for me (and since they're all driving small hybrids and all have big dogs, there often isn't room).  I can't help take care of my ailing parents either--mom has cancer and needs to be taken to her doctors' appointments and chemo-radiation therapies and I can't help do that for her; I can't get up there after work to temporarily relieve whichever of my siblings has been tending to them.  When I do get up there, I can't take my dad around to the places he still wants to go but can't get to since he's no longer driving.  I can't take them to the airport when they fly off to visit someone.  I can't haul up food and other things they need.  Yeh, I've learned how to drive but since I didn't get any practice driving, I don't drive and wish I had learned and had been driving all these years so now, when my parents need us, I could contribute to their comfort.  Your dad may not think this is important, as I didn't think it was important until my parents ran up against old age, especially now while he's still hale and hearty but in time he'll appreciate it.  And you if you don't learn how to drive when you young and receptive (and learn how to drive correctly and defensively), then he's going to always need to drive you around.  You can get your driver's license without having insurance.  It's only if you drive your dad's car that he'll need to increase his coverage--and if he's got homeowner's insurance, it is a lot cheaper.  Plus you'll eventually need a license for I.D. purposes.  If cost is the only reason he won't let you learn to drive, get a job and offer to pay for part of the increase.  In the meantime, show him how responsible you are and careful in everything else you do--if you're taking chances now and doing risky things and not following rules and all that, then you're just showing what an irresponsible driver you're going to be.