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Just curious ... opinions helpful ...







edited: noob poll creator

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Where's the 'other' option?

I never took drivers ed and I didn't have parents at the time to teach me. A friend of mine taught me when I was 19. I learned how to drive in a convertible BMW. Kinda fun actually.

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Parent instruction...i.e., learning to drive when I was eight, on a tractor (a stick shift! ).

No options for combinations..

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The Drivers Education class I took in High School was pretty worthless. I learned everything about actually driving from my parents and my older brother.

The actual rules I just got one of them there hand books they have at the DMV and I studied it. That, along with common sense, got me passed the written exam.

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My dad tried to teach me. But he didn't have the patience for it and I was too scared to drive. So at the ripe old age of 22, my best friend taught me how to drive in his parents' minivan. I passed the test rather easily. Good thing he had patience and taught me well.

I put parental instruction, but it was actually my grandfather.

Just public school curriculum to me.

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I was parentally instructed (tractor, etc) from a young age, but then our state requires either a school/commercial program to get a permit at 16- I think you can get it without the course starting at either 17 or 18.

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Basic car/moped stuff, Dad took me with him and was terrified for his life and kinda shouty. I also took driver's ed because it was an easy way to Intermediate.

Motorcycle, I took a course at the Harley dealership in Omaha.

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Driver's ED course (worthless) mother (too annoying to describe) father (much better) and grandfather (better still)

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Driver's Ed course, mediocre. Friend who coached me well enough to pass the test. Picked up a lot more on my own after I got my license

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My dad taught me how to drive manual but most of the road driving was done in driver's ed class in high school.

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Parental instruction just kind of casually pointing things out as they drove for a long time (my Dad and a friend in their youth used to drive showroom stock, so this had some really useful and interesting bits), then Commercial Driver's Ed course mixed with parental instruction behind the wheel. I think my parents used the course to get me past the parts where there would've been terror and screaming (which I was fine with -- the commercial guy gets a passenger-side steering wheel so I don't kill somebody!), and then did a lot of hours with me after that point.

The book-work for the commercial course was appallingly poorly administered, IMO.

After I had my license, my parents taught me stick.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Parental instruction partly, but the insurance break my folks got on commercial drivers ed far outweighed the cost of the program (I think it was like, 2 or 3 hundred dollars for an accredited drivers instruction ocourse, and the savings were double that on the insurance), so I took a commercial program.

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Parents and Drivers Ed in public school

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It's funny, but I clearly remember three things about learning to drive. (1) My mom frantically putting her foot on the brake as I flew through an intersection. (2) My instructor saying "The only place you can get hit by a train is at a railroad crossing." and (3) Some guy in the backseat teaching me how to parallel park. If I can visualize that, I can park anywhere.

Mainly school for me, but .. (4) I drove with my learner's permit for about four months, while waiting for an appointment or something. That's probably when I really learned to drive.

I'm looking forward to teaching my daughter to drive. My son, not so much.

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I'm of the personal opinion that after a certain adult age, that people should be required by law to re-take the tests at the DMV, and then do so after every 5 - 10 years. There are people that either shouldn't be driving or don't remember any of the rules beyond "accelerate, brake, red means stop, green means go."

But then I live in Utah, and we have very bad drivers (not the worst in the U.S.... but close).

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All of the above.

The first time I ever drove my father took me to the parking lot of a nearby Catholic church in his brand new Mercedes. He said "Don't worry, last rites are conveniently located if you damage the car in any way". When he was pretty sure I could manage without disgracing him he sent me to a commercial driver training school. The next year our school switched to requiring in-school drivers ed.

He made me a deal: Pass the driven exam in San Francisco during rush hour in a manual transmission and he'll pay for my insurance.

My parents stuck me in the driver's seat and said "go". Thank god for living in the country with empty roads.

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I learned on my grandfather's farm when I was 15. I hauled hay using his truck. It was the kind of hay in the huge round bails, not the smaller square ones. You have a three pronged fork on the back, hooked up to a wench, and you back up into the hay bail and hold the switch for the wench and it lifts up the bail, then you drive to where you want it and lower the wench to set it into place.

I hauled hundreds of these things, and it really gave me good control of my car. Parallel parking is a breeze.

I did however take drivers ed in school, but I already knew how to drive at that point.

Wow, that must have been a pretty husky wench.

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Lol.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I took drivers ed through my high school. My father (a business teacher at the school) was an instructor, so he had already pretty much taught me everything I needed to know anyways.

Hmmm...yes. Either that or I just don't know how to spell :p

I suppose I meant winch.