You have to be 18 years old to apply for your license. It's also legally required for all new drivers to undertake seven hours of traffic related first-aid lessons to make sure you can respond to a medical emergency on the road.
License applicants must undergo 28 hours of driving theory lessons at a driving school and four practical maneuver lessons on a track. These lessons have to include lessons in driving in a figure eight, setting and stopping off by the side of a road, driving forwards and backwards with measured braking, reversing and turning, parking in bays, three-point turns, forward and reverse slalom, and breaking hard without locking the wheels.
They also have to attend lessons on a slippery track where they have to drive at speeds ranging from 30-70 kilometers per hour. This will teach them skills like road holding and loads, speed, braking length, regaining control after skidding and keeping control after driving over a high edge!
No wonder only 87 people were killed in Denmark in road accidents involving cars in 2012, compared to the staggering 34,080 in the USA in that same year.
