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 Alex,consider yourself lucky, you could be off much worse. Legal age for driving in Germany is 18 and driving school is mandatory, with a minimum of 20 hours at about $ 80 each. If you add all the fees, you are easily in the range of $  2,000 for your driver´s license, which you get with a 1-year probation period. The slightest offense puts you back to "Start all over".I was lucky to be able to get my license in the US, while staying there as an exchange student. I had to pay $ 5 to get it transcribed into a German license, but that was 35 years ago. I actually favor an even more rigid training. Can you imagine 45 million cars on the road in a state of the size of less than Texas - and no speed limit on most motorways? You need all the training you can get to survive that.Btw, due to the more rigid driver´s education, the number of fatal accidents has been cut down by nearly 80 % over the last 15 years.  Most of those still too many accidents can be attributed to young and inexperienced drivers, who attempt to defy the laws of physics.
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