I was playing around about who needs an endorsment, im pretty sure almost every state makes you have one these days. By the way the situation that I was involved in couldn't have been avoided by going to a class riding around in a parking lot it teaches you the basics of how to control a bike and gives you verbal instruction on how to avoid such situations you never know what someone else is going todo while driving a car, the class also gives you a little break on your insurance also good luck man