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Yes. I have no idea why anyone would think otherwise. The car must be road legal (including registration, insurance, and everything else). Who these are tied to is irrelevant. And I’ve never heard of anywhere where it was illegal for a non-driver to own a car. So I can see no reason it would ever be a question.I have taken my behind the wheel test with a motorbike that was registered and insured under my name. In Texas. Nobody asked or cared about the registration or insurance, other than it was up to date.

Depends on the state you are applying. You have written tests(Depends on what type of license you are trying to get. Take them all; It only involves one road test here in Texas. You have a walk around inspection test/brake test; and a driving test. In Texas that involves Straight line backing with a trailer. A test where you parallel park your tractor and trailer. Then you have a several mile road test, where you will make left and right turns in traffic. Open highway and town tests. In the town where I tested the worst part was making a turn thru an intersection and into a yield street and making a 180 degree turn during traffic. Keep hands on wheel and don’t talk to tester. Tell them to fasten seat belt. Before backing: get out and look behind you.

The speed limits in the US are set by each state. Some have maximum speed limits of 65, others are 70, 75, 80, and 85 in Texas (and Hawaii is only 60). We have 50 states and only one of them has a limit above 80, and that's only one (short) road, and that was only enacted recently in 2012. And there's some controversy behind that, as that's SH130 which is a toll road, and there was some provision in the contract for which the company collecting the tolls paid more money if the speed limit was higher, and the limit was reduced on an alternate highway at about the same time.What would take to get a higher speed limit in a state? Laws are usually made or changed by the legislature in each state, so you'd need the appropriate bill introduced to change the limit, then it has to be brought up for a vote, pass the vote, pass the vote in the second house of the legislature (in every state except Nebraska, which has only one house), and then has to be signed by the governor of the state (or passed with such overwhelming support that the governor cannot veto it).Then once the legislation is in place, traffic engineers would need to evaluate any road where the limit was to be raised and make a recommendation to raise it.Remember back in 1974 the National Maximum Speed Law (NMSL) was enacted limiting speeds to 55 all over the US in a (poor, ineffective, misguided) effort to save fuel because of the oil crisis, and this limit was not lifted until 1995. And we're still suffering from the effects of that as limits are being raised gradually.Why are limits only raised gradually in each state instead of figuring out what an appropriate level is and doing it all at once? Politicians are reluctant to introduce bills with large changes because they would have little support in the legislature, as opposed to "a small 5 mph increase." No one wants to vote for a big increase because the "safety advocates" would start campaigning against anyone who stuck their neck out and supported a much higher limit. These "safety advocates" include groups that stand to benefit from lower limits and tickets - such as the insurance industry and the law enforcement industry. And too many slow drivers would get too vocal if limits were raised too fast. Remember the US is the land of getting your driver's license from a crackerjack box, everybody drives regardless of ability, and many people behind the wheel do everything EXCEPT driving the car.Every time the limit gets raised by 5 mph in a state (most recently in PA, July 2014, from 65 to 70) there seems to be the need for some "test" to "make sure it's actually safe." In PA the limit was raised to 70 on 3 stretches of rural interstate "as a test" and then the results will be evaluated - even though 37 of the other 49 states had already raised their limits to 70 (or beyond) and have had them there for years. Somehow the experiences from the other states isn't good enough, even though some of those states are close neighbors to PA on the west (Ohio) and South (West Virginia, Virginia). Also, the PA Turnpike had no speed limit for the first few months it was open, and then a 70 mph speed limit after that - over 70 years ago, with much more primitive vehicular technology!The safety lobby has a lot of influence in this country (largely because of political contributions) even though their arguments are tired and often factually incorrect and have been proven wrong many times before, and we don't have a large enough political lobby with the appropriate interests to counter them, probably because no one stands to gain a whole lot of money from higher, more reasonable speed limits (as opposed to Germany, which has the high-end auto manufacturers - BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, and Audi/VW - campaigning for unlimited speeds). Common misconceptions include that drivers will always drive 10-15 mph over the limit, that "the highways will turn into a bloodbath with higher speed limits," crashes on roads with higher speed limits will be worse, cars will consume more fuel, and a whole host of other arguments that ignore the fact that people drive at a speed they're comfortable driving and won't automatically drive faster just because the limit has changed.During nighttime, fog, rainstorms, and snowstorms - people manage to reduce their speeds to account for their conditions and drive fairly safely, so there's no reason to believe they couldn't choose an appropriate speed themselves in good weather. And if you raised the limit to 120 mph - not everyone would be going "10 or 15 over." Look at that video posted by Craig Weiland in Germany. There's one car going 90 mph (which is probably comfortable for a lot of people here in the US), he's passing a lot of people, and there's one car flying by him - on a stretch of road with no limit.It is often suggested by traffic engineers that speed limits should be set at the 85th percentile speed of free-flowing traffic on a day with good weather conditions. Unfortunately politicians don't often take this advice into account and politics gets in the way of policy that would actually be safer and more appropriate.