Georgia to Issue Driver’s Licenses Without Road Tests During the Pandemic

Teenagers under 18 who hold learner’s permits will be able to upgrade to a provisional license by providing an affidavit from their parent, guardian, or driving instructor, certifying that they have completed 40 hours of supervised driving. Permit holders over 18, however, can sign their own affidavit.

Spencer Moore, the commissioner at the Department of Driver Services, told WSB-TV that the new measures are an effort to abide by social distancing guidelines. The executive order, he said, “allows the teen driver to go to that next phase without having to take that road test because of social distancing problems, obviously, in trying to provide the test.”

These new relaxed measures will last until the expiration of the state’s Public Health State of Emergency on May 13.