I suppose we will be endorsing kids of 8 or 9 years old driving cars on the road next. I don't think a child of that age would be able to cope with a real emergency should it happen. and if anything happened to this young lad, I wonder if the parents would feel they had done the right thing then. Let them be kids, there is plenty of time later in life to take on that sort of responsibility. As for letting a child drive for something like 10 hours a day straight off, well sounds like child labour to me. We have laws in place for truck drivers about hours of driving but seems everyone thinks its okay for a little boy to drive for 10 hours at a stretch.