Learning to Drive

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

How did you learn to drive? Did a parent, a sibling, or, like me, you had an instructor from a driving school teach you? Was it a fun experience or something else?

lgfan · ‎10-19-2012

I had an instructor teach me. My mother paid for eight hours of instruction. It took one month to learn to drive at two hours of instruction per week. I found it fun because the instructor also had the brake and gas peddles on the passenger side of the car. If I was going too fast or slow he could speed up or slow down the car on his side.

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

My instructor had a brake pedal but I don't think he had a gas one.

I remember the first time out on a four lane highway, stressful.

Mary Bailey · ‎03-09-2010

In the 70s HS Sophmore year, we had Drivers Ed. We had in the classroom simulators and book instruction, driver's range on HS grounds, on the road with instructors and also with our parents.

On the range the instructor spoke to us via car radio, there was two students in the car.

It was fun!

beckyb1012 · ‎03-09-2010

I got a hardship one month after turning 15 years old so there was no driver's ed since I was not 16 yet. My mom taught me and I passed the written and driving part of the tests. I could drive during the daylight hours alone and at night with her in the car.

Once I turned 16 I could have any licensed driver in the car with me at night as long as they were 18 or older. Driver's ed was offered six months after my 16th birthday so once that was done then all restrictions were lifted. I did not have to take any of the tests again since I had taken them only a year and a half earlier, just presented my certificate for completing the course.

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occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

@Mary Bailey

That seems a perfect way to learn, especially the in school simulators.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

Driver's Education program in high school.

Eventually, he was terminated for having intimate relations with some of the students.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

@occasionalrain wrote:
How did you learn to drive? Did a parent, a sibling, or, like me, you had an instructor from a driving school teach you? Was it a fun experience or something else?

I learned in my senior year of high school. It was part of the curriculum. In a class with all boys, I was teased mercilessly when we went on the road but all in good fun. I won an award at the end of the semester for best parallel parking.🙃😁 Passed my driving test that summer and have driven in Manhattan which can be the worst place to navigate. Many different states and still love driving. 💞

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

All I remember, as it was like a zillion years ago, was that we had a classroom part of it and a driving part of it, also a thing from school. Back then you learned on a standard shift.

Following that I got my 'permit' at 15 1/2 years old, as that was what California offered, then my actual license at age 16.