LEARNiNG TO DRiVE.

United States
October 9, 2006 9:56pm CST
Describe your experience of learning how to drive. Were you good? Were you scared? Did you drive real fast or slow? Any experience..
10 responses
@suryachalla (1369)
• India
12 Oct 06
I was not really afraid, only apprehensive about my mind-eye-hand-feet coordination! And it proved to be easier to use them by being aware of the faculties involved in learning to drive. I reached up to 3rd gear. I hadnt yet learnt to apply reverse gear when i gave up practising driving! Actually the first time i stepped on the gas, the car started going directly towards the only tree in sight! Luckily, I got back my senses and veered off! But I think, one day is enough to learn driving( 4 or 5 hours).
• United States
12 Oct 06
O0 thats an experience! i woulda been so scared that moment! atleast u missed tha tree!
@Aali311 (6112)
• United States
12 Oct 06
I was fifteen, learning to drive in the streets of Queens NY, it was crazy, got cursed out by a very old woman, it was hilarious, I got the hang of it pretty quickly.
• United States
12 Oct 06
I bet that was nerve-racking! I been to NYC before, never drove myself while there tho!
@mcmomss (2601)
• United States
30 Jul 07
I took drivers ed in school, but most of my driving lessons I got from my best friend who was a year older than me and had her own car. My dad didn't have enough patience to teach me. I think I was a pretty quick learner. So far no accidents and I've been driving for 20 years.
• India
12 Oct 06
i had no problem learning to drive a car. i actually took out the car by myself for a drive on the second day itself!! but with two wheelers i was scared like hell. it took me nearly three months to master it. i even used to think i wont ever ride a two wheeler...but still through patience and perseverance i mastered that also.
@anand20 (214)
• India
12 Oct 06
the xperience was bizzare he scolded me like helll
@weston4 (15)
12 Oct 06
i was drivin fast and smashed the instructros car up........ they dont go well with lampost
• India
12 Oct 06
i already knew how to ride a bicylce.so after that riding a bike was defintely lot easier.initially i was a lot scared but now i am more confident.yeah and even i used to ride very slowly but gradually increased my speed.
• United States
10 Oct 06
I'm sort of a late bloomer when it came to driving myself because I had trouble trying to get my learner's permit (in which the DMV only accepted a birth certificate as proof of age). Also, when I got my learner's permit, I didn't have the time (because of work & college) to actually get out there in a car. A friend of mine introduced me to a driving instructor, & that was how I learned. I was taught in a Honda Civic tat had a passenger-side brake pedal. When the friend who hooked us up came to visit, he wanted to see my progress, in his Lincoln Town Car, & both, my friend & I would have went flying through the windshield when I stepped on the brake. That was how I learned that different cars handle differently. I passed the road test with no points taken off, in my driving instructor's Honda Civic. The highlights of that were two things. THe inspector was one hot lady that made it sort of a challenge to keep my eyes off her & on the road. The other one was that she accidentally slammed on the passenger-side brake. By the time the road test was over, neither one of us were able to stop laughing.
• Philippines
10 Oct 06
it has been a long experience for me learning to drive. i went to a training school for driving when i was in high school. my parents did not let me use a car back then so i was not able to practice driving. so many years after college, when i was working, and after i gave birth to my first child, that was the only time i really got behing the wheel on my own and drove the car. necesity forced me to learn because i had to bring my baby to his monthly check ups to the doctor. my driving has always been slow. the fastest i could drive on a highway is 90 kilometers per hour. driving is an acquired skill that becomes better with practice. i was not a very good driver at first but i was cautious because i usually have my baby in the back seat. the only scrapes i encountered are from non moving objects that has not reached my vision when i park the car. i have never had any collition with other vehicles in motion.
@britishyip (1609)
• India
10 Oct 06
i was quite good. i learnt at the age of 13.. stareted with bike.. and in 16 i learnt car.. it was quite easy i feel..