Is a borrowed car acceptable to take my driving test in?

You can borrow a car to take the driver’s test in; lots of people take driver’s ed and take it in that car. You will have to check with the DMV in your state to see what the insurance requirements are. Here, you are required to show that the vehicle is insured and the vehicle registration before you take the test. They also check turn signals and brake lights before you start the test.

Are you in California? The answer is yes. The person that you borrow the car from would have to go to the driving exam with you.

You may take the test in a borrowed car. The owner should not give anyone permission to drive his car unless he has insurance that transfers to the borrower. Check your own state law to be sure it is the same. This is the way it is in all of the states in which I am familiar with insurance laws. This is my personal opinion.

I’m in NC and here you have to be insured as well as the car!

I took mine in the Drivers Ed car.

It completely depends on the state. In Delaware, I didn’t have to take a separate driving test aside from what we did in Driver’s Ed. At the end of Drivers Ed., we were given a blue slip that we took to the DMV to get our license with.

Call up your DMV and get all the information from them before you show up so you are prepared.

I’m sure that you’d be able to use a borrowed car, but check with your state’s DMV requirements. I’d be shocked if insurance was not a requirement.

Wanna hear a funny story?

At the time that I was to take my driver’s test, I had been using two of my employer’s vehicles for a while (yes, I guess I WAS driving illegally up to that point), one was automatic, the other a stick shift. I was almost always in the little truck with the stick shift so on the day I took the test in the car that was automatic – with the State Trooper in the passenger seat – we’re coming up to my first stop

. I went for the clutch and hit the power disc brake! Almost threw his funny looking hat off his head! That must’ve cost me 15 points, ‘cause I didn’t do anything wrong the rest of the way and I passed with an 85…

If you think about it for a bit, most people take a driving test in a borrowed car. Either borrowed from parents, for most middle-class kids getting a first license, or from friends in the case of an adult who has never driven.

I can’t think of anyone who has never driven before and has his or her own car.

But you definitely do want to make sure that it’s properly (and currently) registered, insured, emissions and safety inspected (if they do that thing in your state or area). If not, the owner will probably get a ticket, which won’t do much for your relationship with them.

I thought you had two cars & were loaning one to a friend @AshlynM?

Yes, I do have 2 cars but they are both manual and I don’t know how to drive them.

They were my deceased’s husband’s. I live with my friend who has a car and he does all the driving.