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Originally Posted by Shoonra
First and foremost, this was not the origin of the drivers license. There were laws in other states going back to 1904 and possibly earlier which regulated who could operate horseless carriages, and definitely court cases on those laws from well before 1925. Similar early laws were enacted in England and France and probably some other countries.
Incidentally, simultaneous with the quoted California law about a license for drivers for hire, there was enacted another California law requiring a license for people driving themselves in their personal motor vehicles. And, of course, both those 1925 laws have been replaced by newer laws since then.
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I would not have presumed that he inferred such to be the origin of drivers licenses. Seems more to have alluded to the notion of a discussion concerning their origin. Nonetheless, I've come across some interesting resources on the topic.