Tell Your Driving Lesson Stories Here!

[Ryanswannell]

So, I've just booked my first driving lesson for the upcoming Monday morning, and I am very much looking forward to it . Especially since I have found out the cars I will be doing it in is the newest Audi A3 .

I was just wondering what you guy's experiences where during your driving lessons, or if you plan on taking any in the future?

 

[Pagey279]

My lessons went pretty smoothly and without incident. I inevitably stalled a few times at first but nothing out of the ordinary.

My instructor was a thoroughly nice guy, the car was a Mini, and it went as well as it could have done.

It didn't go the same for a friend of a friend, she's pretty cack handed at most things and it turns out should NEVER be allowed behind the wheel of a car. God knows how she did it but she "misjudged" a small grassy mound of a roundabout and ploughed straight over the top beaching the car

 

[Moglet]

I did mine in a standard 1.6 Focus, then the instructor upgraded to a Zetec halfway through my lessons. It was a nice car to drive but as bland as they come overall. My instructor was great, he not only taught me all about the basic driving techniques but he also constantly spoke about how to read the road properly, and why the car would do certain things (understeer, rev-matching etc.). He was awesome.

 

[Grandea GTR]

My driving instructor told me I wouldn't pass the driving exam.
The next day, I passed and got my license.

 

[Harry6784]

My driving lessons were the license test in GT4

Passed first time

 

[Jet Badger]

Having to take the test 3 times wasn't fun at all but the process was pretty interesting at times. Once we were driving through some block houses parking lot and needed to make a u-turn in a narrow snowy spot. The instructor told me to hold the wheel at full lock, did some witchcraft with the pedals and the handbrake and in a split second we were facing the other way. Other time we stopped at a light on the second lane. The instructor told me that now we'll have to go faster so not to hold up traffic. The light turned green and so I started going 'faster' as much as you could imagine a student, whose used to driving at crawling speeds, driving. The instructor just kept saying "faster, faster... just floor it already!". Well, he didn't say "floor it" but it was still pretty fun Sanic gotta go fastur

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

All I remember from my driving tests is that we each had a partner and mine ran a stop sign in a mall then ran a red light.

 

[JMoney]

I never had official training, I just learned the manual with my dad in the neighborhood. I probably stalled is poor old Mercury 50 times before I had it down. My truck turned out to be easier to clutch.

Later, I failed my written permit test the first time, but passed the second time. During my driven test I hit the curb twice while parallel parking but did everything else right and managed to pass.