How many hours/months did you practice driving before you took your road test?

[Child_Of_God]

For me it was about 6 months but that’s because I was in college and working at that time so as a result I barely had enough free time to practice.

It paid off in the end though because I ended up passing the road test on my first try.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

3 days with mom. Taught me how to use the clutch and switch gears, parallel park, k-turn, check seatbelts/gauges/mirrors, etc.​

 

[Child_Of_God]

3 days with mom. Taught me how to use the clutch and switch gears, parallel park, k-turn, check seatbelts/gauges/mirrors, etc.​

3 days? You serious?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

3 days? You serious?

Dead-ass.

Hyundai Sonata. She's always driven manual transmission cars. Took me out to a Mall parking lot that we had to get to by a route taking us along several back roads, a couple main roads, and 2 highways. Then, back home.

Took me a half-hour to get shifting down so I didn't stall. After that, we were off.​

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

A month in a drivers ed summer school course
White Jesus got me through that bytch
I shouldn’t have ever passed that test
Written or driving

 

[StretfordRed]

Americans: A weekend with pops
UK/Europeans: 50-60 hours

 

[RadaMillz]

I went to drivers-ed at 15.5 year old
got my permit, bought a 1992 Acura Legend and immediately hit the road
I was kings amongst my friends

 

[Hersh]

2 sessions less than an hour each.

driving pretty intuitive.. id say im the best driver i know

 

[Peter Parker]

Took some lessons, never learned how to parallel park though, my boy drove me to the shyt because I needed a licensed driver with me(I was driving alone with a permit for years), showed me how to do that shyt on their course like once or twice and I got lucky and nailed it the first time, passed.

I can't parallel park to this day but somehow I nailed it that first try

 

[Vilify]

About 3 weeks. We had just moved to a neighborhood without public transportation, so that lit a fire under my ass.

 

[WaveWhisperer]

Like 5 times over two months

 

[O.T.I.S.]

None

Got my license without doing shyt

 

[CopiousX]

For me it was about 6 months but that’s because I was in college and working at that time so as a result I barely had enough free time to practice.

It paid off in the end though because I ended up passing the road test on my first try.

2 weeks. I Almost killed myself and the instructor 30sec into the test

 

[Child_Of_God]

2 weeks. I Almost killed myself and the instructor 30sec into the test

What did you do?

 

[CopiousX]

What did you do?

There was an intersection right outside the testing office and it was 5pm on a weekday rush hour. We did some warmup turns in the lot, before starting the road test. Afterwards, I started inching into traffic, turning right , but got cold feet about a quarter of the way out of the lot. But then i regained my confidence , before losing it again shortly later when the oncoming traffic sped up as they saw me pulling out. But then i inched forward and then stopped again for a 3rd time.


After doing this jolting forward, then abrupt stoping motion for 10 seconds; i just decide to myself “oh , fck it! Im sure this will all work out”




And i immediatley gunned the engine. Feet all the way down on the accelerator, on some hail marry type of sht. Straight into 3 lanes of traffic




Tester looked at me like