History Main / KidsDrivingCars

** In "Little Big Girl", Bart steals every fire extinguisher in Springfield Elementary to propel his wagon. As Bart rockets around town, the foam released from the extinguishers puts out a wildfire the townspeople of Springfield unsuccessfully try to extinguish. Bart [[AccidentalHero is cheered as a hero by everyone]] and rewarded with a driver's license by Mayor Quimby, leading him to use Homer's car for his own pleasure.

* ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'': As a way of escaping Camp Chippewa, young Pugsley steals a van and drives it home. His older sister, Wednesday, rides in the van. Their friend, Joel Glicker, is offered a ride home but he declines it.

* In 2020, a 5-year-old boy swiped his parents' SUV. He attempted to drive it from his home in Utah, to California so he could buy a Lamborghini. A police officer pulled the boy over on the Utah highway. The officer returned the boy home with the stolen SUV. There weren't any charges against the boy or his family.

* Ellie in ''Videogame/TheLastOfUs''. After Joel, Ellie and Bill find a functional pickup truck, Bill notes that the battery is drained. They have to push it down the hill so that the alternator will recharge the battery. Joel and Bill push while Ellie is behind the wheel. Once the truck starts up, Joel and Bill jump in the back and Ellie drives away from the Infected. Once they're away from the Infected, Joel takes the wheel instead. In the ''Left Behind''DLC, Ellie says that this wasn't her first experience driving a car.

* Being that he's no other than the son of former WRC driver Harri Rovanperä, rally driver Kalle Rovanper&auml gained notoriety on the internet for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06OC5OZgkCg taking up rallying]] at just '''eight years old'''! Rovanperä formally competed in his early teens in Latvia where a driver's licence isn't required for motorsports events, with his co-driver Risto Pietiläinen having to take the wheel between stages. The Finnish traffic safety agency eventually granted Rovanperä a special exemption for him to apply for a licence a year early than the legal driving age, effectively opening the door for him to enter the UsefulNotes/WorldRallyChampionship, where in 2020 he made his championship debut under Toyota Gazoo Racing after his successful stint at Škoda's [=WRC2=] factory team.

* Being that he's no other than the son of former WRC driver Harri Rovanperä, rally driver UsefulNotes/KalleRovanpera gained notoriety on the internet for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06OC5OZgkCg taking up rallying]] at just '''eight years old'''! Rovanperä formally competed in his early teens in Latvia where a driver's licence isn't required for motorsports events, with his co-driver Risto Pietiläinen having to take the wheel between stages. The Finnish traffic safety agency eventually granted Rovanperä a special exemption for him to apply for a licence a year early than the legal driving age, effectively opening the door for him to enter the UsefulNotes/WorldRallyChampionship, where in 2020 he made his championship debut under Toyota Gazoo Racing after his successful stint at Škoda's [=WRC2=] factory team.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlss3E7JewelOfTheAisleSuperZeroes Super Zeroes]]", Blossom decides to imitate her favorite comic book superheroine and adopts a CoolCar called the "Morality Mobile" as her method of transport. She [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gets stuck in traffic]] and ends up being too late to stop a monster attack.

* UpToEleven in a 1924 silent short called ''Film/DreamPicture'', where a baby is abandoned in a car and drives away. His parents find him after he's stopped by a traffic cop for driving erratically.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', Indy has Short Round act as a getaway driver for his meeting with Lao Che. Short Round's age isn't given in the film, but his actor (Ke Huy Quan) was twelve when the movie came out. He ties boxes around his feet to operate the pedals of the car.
* In ''Film/{{Logan}}'', the 11-year-old Laura is able to drive around a truck that she and Logan are traveling in. It's perplexing that her feet can even reach the pedals.
* In ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', Everett, Pete, and Delmer manage to escape from a burning barn when Boy Hogwallop bursts through the barn door in his dad's car and offers them a lift. Since Boy is quite small, he uses a brick to weigh down the accelerator. Later, Everett steals the car, leaving Boy to curse him, Pete and Delmer as he walks back to his dad's farm.
* Junior of ''Film/ProblemChild'' is able to drive Ben's car by reclining under the dash and working the wheel from overhead. Obviously, he can't see where he's going like this, so Ben has to yell directions to him from his perch on the windshield (or while standing up through the sunroof, [[ChekhovsSkill when they deliberately do this later to team up against the baddie]]). By the second movie, he's gotten good enough to just take the wheel like normal... [[FlippingTheBird and is quite familiar with the ol' highway salute]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In "Racing Slicks", Bean scout Edward uses a credit card to buy a race car despite being only a child. He drives it in Camp Kidney's soap box derby.

->''"Oh, isn't that cute? A baby driving a car! And look, there's a dog driving a bus!"''

* In 2020, a 5-year-old boy swiped his parents' SUV. He attempted to drive it from his home in Utah, to California so he could buy a Lamborghini. A police officer pulled the boy over on the Utah highway. The officer returned the boy home with the stolen SUV. There were no charges against the family.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In the episode "Racing Slicks", Bean scout Edward uses a credit to buy a race car despite being a child. He drives it in Camp Kidney's soap box derby.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In the episode ''Racing Slicks'', Bean scout Edward uses a credit to buy a race car despite being a child. He drives it in Camp Kidney's soap box derby.

* ''Series/CampLazlo'': In the episode ''Racing Slicks'', Bean scout Edward uses a credit to buy a race car despite being a child. He drives it in Camp Kidney's soap box derby.

* In 2020, a 5-year-old boy swiped his parents' SUV. He attempted to drive it from his home in Utah, to California so he could buy a Lamborghini. A police officer pulled the boy over on a Utah highway. The officer returned the boy home with the stolen SUV. There were no pressed charges.

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Enzo Matrix has driven a vehicle while he was still a young sprite. In the game Formula One, Enzo rebooted and drove a race car through the first lap of the course. In the second lap, he tried to drive a hovercraft but it was taken over but his adult sister, Dot. Neither of them competed in the third and final lap, which involved racing in jets.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In "Down the Neck", AJ takes his mother's car for a joyride, even though he is only 13-years-old. [[spoiler: He ends up crashing into a parked vehicle, which breaks the mirror on the driver's door of his mom's car.]]

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In the episode ''Down the Neck'', AJ takes his mother's car for a joyride despite being 13-years-old. [[spoiler: He ends up crashing into a parked vehicle, which breaks the mirror on the driver's door of his mom's car.]]

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In the episode ''Down the Neck'', AJ takes his mother's car for a joyride despite being 13-years-old. [[spoiler: He ends up crashing into a parked vehicle, which breaks the mirror on the driver's door of his mom's car.]]

* ''Series/AmericasDumbestCriminals'': In one episode Creator/DanielButler relates the tale of a very drunk guy who decided to have his ten-year-old son drive them home. A police car spotted the pair; when the cop flashed lights and siren, the kid's dad told him to "keep going"(!). With options limited, the officer called the situation in and followed, then [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome busted the dad]] once the kid pulled into the driveway and turned off the car. The re-enactment put a ten-year-old actor in the front seat of a (parked) car used to show just how bad an idea this was; he could juuust see over the dashboard.