[eye30]

Losing one's driving licence in the UK is a serious matter - expensive and, to say the least, very inconvenient.

But in France, no licence? No problem. You can simply go shopping for a VSP a voiture sans permis - a small two-seater car that anyone aged 14 or over can take out on the road with as little as four hours' experience behind the wheel, sometimes not even that.

It's impossible to say how many there are as no official figures exist. It is what the French call achiffre noir - an unknown quantity.

You'll probably hear them coming first, a high-pitched whine like a sewing machine being run at full throttle. If you get stuck behind one on a windy rural lane, tant pis. Top speed is 45km per hour (28mph). It's probably a good idea to stop in the next lay-by and admire the view for a while rather than sit fuming in its wake.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572

[Phil №❶]

50% of New Zealander's don't bother to get a license either, according to their motorway patrol program.

[asathorny]

People over here drive without a license all the time usually in BMW's 

[eye30]

People over here drive without a license all the time usually in BMW's 

Must be a manc thing as your area has the most bmw owners in uk.

Source
Me driving to ringway and every other car was a bmw!

[asathorny]

You are quite right Lester, and I will not quote the euphemism 

[The Gonz]

Are we going to compare notes on percentage of population driving without a license?

[Phil №❶]

You guys are 

[Doggie 1]

You guys are 

You started it!     

[Phil №❶]

 

[ibrokeit]

50% of New Zealander's don't bother to get a license either, according to their motorway patrol program.

Having just been back for Christmas - just don't get me started. Whilst I love my home country and city - a greater proportion of kiwi drivers seem to have NFI how to drive safely and quickly/efficiently and/or politely.  Compared to metropolitan driving here many were driving like country bumpkins (and I come from a farm - so I am a country bumpkin) in town.

Numerous times of  and any number of tailgaters, one of the more interesting maneuvers I saw was me indicating I was going to go into the right turning lane that started up ahead (huge painted traffic island - major industrial area with a main feeder arterial - to allow B-doubles to sit in centre for turning off of and/or turning on to the road)  - and the guy behind me moving out and accelerating to the right to go up my driver's side to get into the lane ahead of me?!?!? what was really interesting about that was I was over the speed limit slightly and approaching a intersection on red