[JakeTheAndroid]

This is still true. I moved from AZ to CA when I was 17 and my AZ permit expired. It was way easier and cheaper to wait until I turned 18 so that I didn't have to pay for the requisite driving training courses. Oddly enough, Drivers Ed is required to pass high school, but if you get your training or your license before you graduate you can supply them with the documentation and still get the credit.

With my birthday being in July, I technically should have had to take a Drivers Ed course, but because I moved my senior year of high school, I basically got a lot of free credits because the state requirements were different and I would have had to essentially take an extra year of HS if they didn't just hand me credits. It's weird.