Learning to drive

Rois · August 30, 2017, 08:50:14 PM

Try one of those telematics policies where they track your driving.

I got an automatic last yr, will never buy a manual again.

Tony Baloney · August 30, 2017, 08:57:23 PM

Quote from: Boycey on August 30, 2017, 06:19:05 PM
Quote from: whitey on August 30, 2017, 05:53:22 PM
Quote from: Boycey on August 10, 2017, 09:09:09 AM
Incredibly I've gotten myself to the age of almost 50 without learning to drive .
Circumstances have now dictated to me that I must learn so I've taken 3 lessons this week. I've been shocked at the level or aggression other drivers have shown to an obvious learner driver in a fully marked up instructors car.

Any tips for me??

Make your life easy and drive an automatic car.....youre way too old to learn how to drive
a stick shift

Thanks for the vote of confidence I'm going ok (I think) I have wondered a couple of times though why everyone doesn't drive an automatic..

Old auto boxes were pish unless in top of the range yokes and cost a fortune to replace. Have never driven one at home but I can see why they are increasingly popular.

bennydorano · August 30, 2017, 09:12:35 PM

Quote from: Rois on August 30, 2017, 08:50:14 PM
Try one of those telematics policies where they track your driving.

I got an automatic last yr, will never buy a manual again.

Drove an automatic on holidays and after a no instruction figuring it out session it was class. Would defo consider it when we change.

Boycey · July 30, 2019, 05:05:50 PM

I started this thread almost two years ago and today finally sat my driving test which I passed I'm glad to say

Any other oldies, it's never too late...

Geoff Tipps · July 30, 2019, 05:13:33 PM

Quote from: Boycey on July 30, 2019, 05:05:50 PM
I started this thread almost two years ago and today finally sat my driving test which I passed I'm glad to say

Any other oldies, it's never too late...

Well done!

Kidder81 · July 30, 2019, 06:23:58 PM

Quote from: Boycey on July 30, 2019, 05:05:50 PM
I started this thread almost two years ago and today finally sat my driving test which I passed I'm glad to say

Any other oldies, it's never too late...

Well done Boycey

BennyCake · July 30, 2019, 06:47:19 PM

Well done Boycey.

Marlene will be looking chauffeured around the place now!

David McKeown · July 30, 2019, 06:50:38 PM

Great news. I've recently started teaching my wife's sister and it's put years on me.

gallsman · July 30, 2019, 07:08:13 PM

Great work Boycey, now you can get to work with the rest of us driving those bastarding cyclists off the roads.

How's the insurance looking now?

Tony Baloney · July 30, 2019, 07:11:34 PM

Good lad Boycey.

Dougal Maguire · July 30, 2019, 07:12:56 PM

Quote from: Boycey on July 30, 2019, 05:05:50 PM
I started this thread almost two years ago and today finally sat my driving test which I passed I'm glad to say

Any other oldies, it's never too late...

Congratulations Boycey

Eamonnca1 · July 31, 2019, 05:23:02 PM

Eamonnca1 · July 31, 2019, 05:28:57 PM

It's harder to overtake cyclists when they're single file. It's easier to overtake cyclists when they're riding abreast. It's not the width of the group that slows you down, it's the length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJiixtKuVq8&

armaghniac · July 31, 2019, 08:28:43 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on July 31, 2019, 05:28:57 PM
It's harder to overtake cyclists when they're single file. It's easier to overtake cyclists when they're riding abreast. It's not the width of the group that slows you down, it's the length.

It is the fact they are blocking the road that slows you down.

majestic · July 31, 2019, 10:42:06 PM

Not to get into the cycling debate, but do drivers feel the same about single cyclists riding to work or just out for some fitness? It concerns me when people talk about how they are a nuisance! I cycle to work by myself everyday and never cycled in a group, but yet I still feel like drivers give me very little respect eg pulling out of junctions infront of me etc! Anyone experience the same?