First Driving Experience

[Mr. Google]

I just started driving today for about 20 minutes. for the first 5 i was completely scared and my Dad was yelling at me to do this or that. After about 10 more minutes i finally felt comfortable. He gave me a B as a grade so I'm happy. How was your first driving experience? Did you crash and burn or were you a pro?

 

[Busdriver580]

I almost flipped the car and took out a mailbox, my dad threw me out of the car. Sound like you had a bit better luck.

 

[Phlakes]

The first time I drove was in an empty parking going in circles. It only took me a few times after that to really catch on and I was never really scared when on the road. Also never been in an accident, either.

 

[Radeonx]

My first driver's ed lesson went fine, but I had a lot of practice driving when I was 14 without a permit, so I already had some experience.
My first time driving I was 13 and hit my neighbor's mailbox, but he was cool about it and just let me rebuild it instead of calling the police.

 

[Scarim Coral]

My first lesson went fine since the instructor took me in a empty carpark. However my paranoia for crashing the car (this is the result of playing a lot of racing games) it had took me a while until I drive normally (I was driving slow before then).

 

[FamoFunk]

My first driving experience was when I was 16 (you have to be 17 here to leagally drive) with an ex "teaching me" in an empty car park at around 3am. I put my foot down a bit too hard and nearly crashed into all the trollies.

I'm happy to report 4 years on I'm a legal, safe driver.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I drove a few miles along our crazy country roads, and while trying to navigate a hairpin bend in a dip in the road, with a white van behind me I didn't push the gear the whole way into second, (I was trying to change down a gear to go slower) and put the car into neutral, so we just coasted down the hill towards the bend and I was like AARGH I don't have any experience to know what to do in this situation! but the instructor just put on the breaks and put the car into first gear.

 

[DustyDrB]

I think the first thing I drove was my jet ski. They let you get a license for that when you're 12 or something. That's way too young, because I just went off being an ass and splash water at other boats and people fishing off of docks.

 

[Rylot]

I first learned to drive in my church's parking lot with my dad in first without really hitting the gas; I was fifteen. The parking lot was pretty small, only fitting about fifty cars at most. There was only one other car in the entire parking lot... Long story short I managed to hit the car... It was the pastor's... She was parked at the end of a line of stalls I just turned the car too tight and clipped the bumper; it didn't leave much more than a smudge mark and she thought it was pretty funny, my dad, not so much. But after nine years of driving I have no major accidents and no speeding tickets.

 

[YouBecame]

My first time in control of a car I stalled, as most people did. I pulled away from the kerb, and oddly didn't stall doing so. I have the car moving at, oohh, about 5mph? At which point I panic and slammed on the brakes, without the clutch. Heh, Seems silly now that I've got my own car, but it's not the easiest thing to learn to do

 

[DefunctTheory]

My first time driving was actually good. I drive the same way now a days.

Now, my first time driving a tactical vehicle... that was something else.

 

[gigastrike]

OH MY GOD THE CAR IS MOVING WITHOUT ME EVEN PRESSING THE GAS! BRAAAAKE!

 

[CrashBang]

My first time driving was in an empty carpark area in the countryside, as far away as I could get from endangering anyone (slight overkill). It went fine but then I started having real lessons. I was a terrible learner driver. Only once I passed my test did I become a good driver. This also seemed to be the case for all of my friends, too

 

[AbstractStream]

I was pretty much a pro...in my head. I had my sister next to me when I was driving for the first time, and I swore I saw her soul come out of her.

 

[teqrevisited]

Mine was on my first driving lesson. For the first 15 minutes he went through the controls and procedures and I spent the majority of the rest of the lesson driving incredibly carefully.

The first time I shifted into third gear was pretty intense. It was on a road that consisted almost entirely of potholes, cracks and drains.

 

[LightspeedJack]

My first experience about 8 weeks ago was just starting the car and driving forwards about 3 meters.

 

[Aur0ra145]

First experience? I passed the test without ever driving before. (This is in America, I was driving an automatic.)

Then a week later I drove 250 miles in a manual to Lubbock, Texas with my best friend. That was probably the scariest trip of both of our lives.

-Brad

 

[Major_Tom]

When I was 12 my old man took me to a big parking lot for trucks and I made a few laps in our old Zastava. It was fun.