8-Year-Old Ohio Boy Drives His Little Sister to McDonald's After Learning...

[rajasumi3]

Thats awesome and i think that in the future every kid will also have their own cars.
well they will riding their girlfriends ,this will happen very soon .
being a 20 s guy i still dont know how to drive a car.

[Farcoin12]

8-Year-Old Ohio Boy Drives His Little Sister to McDonald's After Learning How by Watching YouTube Videos

An 8-year-old Ohio boy took his 4-year-old sister on a joy ride to McDonald’s after they began craving cheeseburgers.

According to FOX 8, the incident occurred on Sunday around 8 p.m. after the children’s dad arrived from work and went to bed early.

Officer Jacob Koehler told FOX 8 that the kids decided to leave after their mother had fallen asleep on the couch. Witnesses later saw the boy driving his father’s work van and called the police.

Koehler told the news station the boy drove about a mile from his home with his little sister in the back of the van. He drove through four intersections and over railroad tracks.

In a surprising twist, witnesses told the police the boy obeyed all traffic laws and drove the speed limit, FOX News reports.....
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/8-old-ohio-boy-drives-232419807.html


See, America IS a free country.  

If I only I had done that when I was a kid. I think that my parents would have whipped the shit out of me.

[BtcoinSpider]

this kept me speechless 

[coins4meh]

Self taught? wow

[Boobies00]

Its cool this kid did that. We were afraid that our parents would beat us if we did something like this. When I was 14 I used to move my parents cars off the driveway and back to set them up for the next morning when they would go to work. My older brother left first so his car had to be the last to go in. Oh the good ole' days..

[kolloh]

Was the vehicle automatic or manual?

i'm interested in this too. my dog can drive an auto. this is hardly the achievement of the century but i'm glad everybody's ok.  

It was almost certainly it an automatic transmission. There is no way an 8 year old is driving a manual lol.

[SlaughterGirl]

Youtube can be very useful for learning lot of stuffs, but the parents have to find a way to limit he access to computer for the little kids who still cannot understand stuff in proper way.

[RamBahadur.Gurung]

This is quite interesting. Imagine that there are two choices: the first one is an eight-year old boy who obey all the traffic rules and drive at the speed limit. The second one is an adult, who never bothers about the traffic rules and always drive under the influence of alcohol. Which one will you prefer?

[Faith Joy]

I advice all parents to keep the keys of their car for the safetiness of the kids. Though the kid on the story can able to obey traffic lights and there is no incident that happened still it would not be safe for kids at a very young age to drive and travel alone. They need guidance of parents. It's better to be safe than sorry.

[kolloh]

This is quite interesting. Imagine that there are two choices: the first one is an eight-year old boy who obey all the traffic rules and drive at the speed limit. The second one is an adult, who never bothers about the traffic rules and always drive under the influence of alcohol. Which one will you prefer?

I'd probably pick the kid in this case. However, it still isn't safe for a kid that young to be driving. Especially since any accident that did occur could become fatal.

I'm also wondering how he was able to reach the pedals and see above the steering wheel at the same time lol. Must have been a tall 8 year old.

[JGoRed]

Given the circumstances I'd say this story has a good ending. I feel like things could have gone a lot worse, but I'm glad they didn't.
I can just imagine the boy on his way out of the driveway saying "16yrs of age to get a learner's permit is to old anyway  ."
                                                                                                                                                                                         

As their workers "scream" for a ridiculous $15/hour, they are asking to be replaced by fast-food robots and computers.

On a relatively unrelated note, I defiantly agree with @Bit_Happy.