YOUR ENTIRE PROGRAM
Virtual Drive of Colorado can be used as the ENTIRE driver’s education
program for a teen to get their license. The program satisfies BOTH the
classroom requirement and the in-vehicle driver training requirement necessary
to obtain
a permit and a driver license.
AGE REQUIREMENTS
Students must wait until age 15 and six months to apply for a permit.
Students must wait until age 16 to
apply for a provisional license and must have held a permit for at least
1 year.
GETTING A PERMIT
You may apply for a permit at age 15 and six months. You must be enrolled in either Virtual
Drive of America or a driver education course equivalent to it. This
will help develop your student with the correct driving habits.
- A minor may
obtain the permit at age 15 and six months ONLY if the minor is enrolled
in an approved driver education course such as Virtual Drive of America.
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Anyone under age 18 must have their permit for one year before being eligible
for their license.
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A minor may obtain a permit at age 16 without driver education.
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Regardless of when a minor obtains a permit, the minor must have the permit
for 12 months before being eligible for licensing.
Students
can apply for a learner’s permit after completing
just 6 hours of the classroom portion of Virtual Drive of Colorado.
Parents will need to log the first 6 hours from Module
One of the program in their “Classroom Progress Report” for
the teen to qualify for a permit. Students must also pass a vision
test, road sign test and written test at the DPS, as well as filling
out and supplying the proper documentation. NOTE:
Students may not begin the in-vehicle training until they receive an
instruction permit!
GETTING A LICENSE
Students must hold a permit for 1 year and complete the rest of the Virtual
Drive of America program, which consists of 33 hours for the classroom
program and 50 hours of instruction for the in-vehicle portion. Upon completion
of the entire course, Virtual Drive of America will send the student their
certificate of completion to take to the DPS.
Note: Colorado’s minimum
requirement for the classroom portion is 30 hours and the minimum in-vehicle
requirement is 50 hours. As an “approved home study parent taught program” Virtual
Drive of America exceeds these minimums so that the teen is supplied with
more than enough education in each of these categories.
