A Kansas resident is 13 and wants an ordinary car instruction permit. What is the earliest age at which the resident can apply, assuming the other requirements are met?
Correct answer: 14 years.
The ordinary instruction-permit stage begins at age 14. Reaching that age does not remove the testing, consent or supervision requirements.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Instruction Permit, ages 14, 15 and 16; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old is applying for an ordinary Kansas instruction permit. What must accompany the application?
Correct answer: The required approval from a parent or guardian.
The current Kansas permit table requires parental approval for applicants ages 14 and 15. Passing a test does not replace that approval.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Instruction Permit, ages 14, 15 and 16—parental approval; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A permit holder wants to practice driving with a 20-year-old licensed friend in the front passenger seat. Is that enough for ordinary supervised practice?
Correct answer: No; the supervising licensed adult must be at least 21 and seated beside the permit holder.
Kansas requires the licensed adult supervisor to be at least 21 and occupy the seat beside the learner. A younger licensed friend does not satisfy that requirement.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Instruction Permit—driving restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old completed driver education but has held a state instruction permit for only eight months. Is the ordinary one-year permit requirement for a restricted license complete?
Correct answer: No; the state-issued instruction permit must be held for one year.
For the age-15 restricted stage, Kansas requires one year with the state-issued permit. Time on a driver-education permit does not substitute for this state-permit requirement.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Restricted License, age 15—Instruction Permit; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old has completed the one-year state-permit period and wants a restricted car license. Which training combination is required at this stage?
Correct answer: An approved driver-education course and at least 25 hours of supervised driving.
The age-15 restricted-license requirements include approved driver education and 25 supervised hours. The later 50-hour milestone is a separate requirement.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Restricted License, age 15—Driver Education and Driving Experience; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old restricted-license holder has no supervising adult along. Which proposed trip fits the ordinary school permission for this stage?
Correct answer: Driving directly to school for attendance.
At the age-15 restricted stage, the school permission is direct travel for attendance, not the broader authorized school-activity permission described for the less-restricted age-16 stage.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Restricted License, age 15—Driving Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old restricted driver plans a permitted trip to work without a supervising adult. A 16-year-old coworker who is not a sibling asks for a ride. What is the correct decision?
Correct answer: Do not carry that nonsibling minor passenger at this stage.
The age-15 restricted stage does not allow nonsibling minor passengers. A permitted destination does not remove the passenger restriction.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Restricted License, age 15—Passenger Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
Before obtaining the less-restricted driving privileges at age 16, what supervised-driving total must be documented?
Correct answer: 50 hours, including 10 hours at night.
Kansas requires an affidavit documenting 50 supervised hours, with 10 at night, for these less-restricted privileges. The applicant must also meet the applicable permit and driving-record requirements.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Less Restricted Privileges, age 16—Driving Experience; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 16-year-old has less-restricted privileges but has not yet completed that stage. During which period may the driver make an ordinary personal trip without relying on a special-purpose exception?
Correct answer: From 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The ordinary travel window for this stage is 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Work, authorized school activities, religious worship and qualifying adult supervision have separate permissions.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Less Restricted Privileges, age 16—Driving Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A driver still in the age-16 less-restricted stage finishes a job shift at 10 p.m. Which trip is allowed under the work exception?
Correct answer: Travel directly home from the job.
The work exception permits travel to or from employment. It does not create unrestricted late-night driving for unrelated purposes.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Less Restricted Privileges, age 16—Driving Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A less-restricted 16-year-old driver is making an allowed daytime trip without an adult supervisor. Two nonsibling friends, both under 18, want rides. What is the applicable limit?
Correct answer: No more than one nonsibling passenger under 18.
The less-restricted stage allows one nonsibling passenger younger than 18. Having enough seat belts does not change the graduated-license limit.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Less Restricted Privileges, age 16—Passenger Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A compliant driver receives less-restricted privileges at 16 years and 10 months. When may the listed stage restrictions end, assuming the other requirements remain satisfied?
Correct answer: At age 17, which comes before six months in that stage.
The current Kansas table uses six months or reaching age 17, whichever occurs first, subject to compliance with the required conditions.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Less Restricted Privileges, age 16—ending restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A 15-year-old restricted driver wants to make a routine hands-free social phone call while driving. What should the driver do?
Correct answer: Wait until safely parked; the novice wireless restriction is not limited to typing texts.
The under-17 permit and restricted stages prohibit wireless-device use while driving except for the stated emergency or illegal-activity reporting purposes. A routine social call is not an exception.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Instruction Permit and Restricted License—Wireless Restrictions; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
A first-time 17-year-old car-license applicant believes turning 17 eliminates all supervised-practice documentation. What does the current Kansas table require?
Correct answer: The 50-hour supervised-driving affidavit, including 10 night hours, still applies before age 18.
For an unrestricted license at 17, the under-18 driving-experience affidavit remains required. The table does not impose the under-17 one-year permit holding rule at age 17.
Source: Kansas Department of Revenue, Graduated Driver License Requirements: Unrestricted License, age 17 and older—Driving Experience; reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
Your license requires corrective lenses. You plan a short daytime drive on familiar streets. What should you do?
Correct answer: Wear the required glasses or contact lenses for the trip.
A corrective-lens restriction applies while driving, not only on unfamiliar roads or at night. Familiarity with the route does not correct impaired vision.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook, revised February 2022, printed/PDF page 13: Vision testing and corrective-lens restriction ↗
An adult driver receives an ordinary work email while driving on a public road. What is the lawful way to read and type a reply by hand?
Correct answer: First stop off the regularly traveled part of the roadway in a safe place.
Kansas prohibits manually writing, sending or reading ordinary written communications while operating on a public road. The stated exception includes a vehicle stopped off the regularly traveled roadway.
Source: 2026 Kansas Statutes, K.S.A. 8-15,111(a)–(d); current text reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
During a long trip you keep missing signs and find your car drifting toward the edge. What is the safest response?
Correct answer: Stop at a safe place and rest before continuing.
Missing information and drifting are fatigue warnings. Fresh air or loud sound cannot reliably restore the attention needed to drive safely.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook, revised February 2022, printed/PDF page 21: Fatigue ↗
Before leaving, a driver needs to enter a navigation destination and secure a pet. When should these tasks be done?
Correct answer: Before the vehicle starts moving.
Set up navigation and secure pets before driving. Tasks that take your eyes, hands or attention away from driving can create a hazard even on a familiar road.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook, revised February 2022, printed/PDF page 21: Driver Distractions, continued on page 22 ↗
Another driver crowds your bumper and gestures angrily. Which response reduces the risk of escalation?
Correct answer: Avoid a confrontation and let the driver go ahead when safe.
Do not challenge or retaliate against an aggressive driver. Preserve space and allow the vehicle to pass safely.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook, revised February 2022, printed/PDF page 22: Aggressive Driving ↗
An adult driving an ordinary car has a blood or breath alcohol concentration of 0.08. Which statement is correct?
Correct answer: That meets Kansas’s alcohol-concentration threshold for driving under the influence.
The statute includes an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more. It also prohibits driving when alcohol or drugs make a person incapable of safe driving, so a lower result is not a guarantee of legality or safety.
Source: 2026 Kansas Statutes, K.S.A. 8-1567(a)(1)–(5); current text reviewed September 29, 2026 ↗
