Thread: A question on Leraner driving.

As for learner drivers


I taught both my girls to drive & here's a couple of things I worked out


* Just go auto for teaching, while I grew up on the farm with manual bikes, tractors, trucks etc. My kids did not & using an auto take's one major problem out of the equation ( had a mate that was so caught up on his son learning to drive in his manual, was to much pressure on the little guy, his old man got fucked off he nearly burned outed the clutch n was just a stressful shit experience alround ) worry about the stick shift stuff later on once they get some road time & street skills.


* Be in a decent sized wagon don't learn to drive in a Vitz or Micro, you want something high n big ( I used my Ranger WT & they soon become aware to size, traffic & can see what ahead ). Then start by going somewhere quite ( I used the local Massey Uni ) has all the characteristics of a proper public road with low speed limits n traffic to get their basic skills up with carparks, reversing etc before going to highway level.


* Once they get the confidence up, go do proper after dinner roadies be it around town, off to the beach, open road windy shit & night driving. This is where modern features come in handy like auto wipers & high beam dipping are really handy ( just one less thing to worry about while learning proper real world - defensive driving skills ) worry about that stuff later, it's not hard to learn

* Put the hours in, drum through defensive - reading the road skills, read the room - pressure when needed to drive home form seeing Nana, get their confidence up but tell em when they do a dick move.

* Then go pay for some proper driving lessons, it's a great way for them to get up the "Licence test curriculum" & shows em that the old man knows his shit