A friend of mines son wants to get his driver's license.

No I absolutely would not. At the very least he would be taking classes if i had to pay for them. That’s the reason my daughter didn’t get her license and she resented me deeply for it. I took her to a church parking lot during a weekday in the summer to teach her basic driving. She got behind the wheel, I told her what to do and as she was driving slowly she was giggling like she was riding in a carnival bumper car ride. I told her to put it in park and get out. And that she would have to take lessons and they cost $300 and I would pay. She stubbornly refused and hounded me to go buy her a car & put it in her name. She refused the driving school and I refused to help her with a car. I believe she was high-functioning autistic, very smart with math, art, and music but things like this were terrible for me to deal with her. I hid my own car keys under my mattress till she graduated and moved out to college because my nephew snuck his mother’s car keys out while she was sleeping, took her car with another 14 year old kid out to a rural area over 10 miles away and ran into an electric company truck on a rural road. Knew 3 other kids who did similar things, one didn’t have a wreck but his parent caught him driving around the corner in his wife’s car when they were coming back to the house. I cannot imagine how it would have ended had I went and bought her a car and let her have at it. Probably bad because she was also easily distracted and easy to fly off the handle about minor things. My parental instincts said NO! for her safety and the safety of anyone else on the road.