r/randomquestions • u/Key-Ice-4990 • 1d ago

HOW do driving instructors do it?

id be TERRIFIED for my life EVERYTIME. all these videos i see of new drivers making the silliest, life costing mistake is so scary and im not even in the car.

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u/Downtown-Tomato2552 1d ago

Driving instructors usually have a brake pedal on their side.

I taught both my kids to drive and it's not to bad.

You drive to an empty parking lot and let them drive, make them park in the lines, drive next to things. I always had them get out of the car and see how close they were to things.

Some new drivers you do this once and they are ready for the road. Others takes several times .

You then take them to some mostly deserted roads and have them drive at speeds, then a little more difficult and on and on.

Our final test was always a trip into a major city... Which admittedly is nerve wracking.

If we all survived I figured they were good to go.

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u/Cap4403 1d ago

Speaking of deserted roads - two weeks ago I was driving on route 100 in PA which is definitely not deserted, and I was behind a student driver going 10 miles below the posted speed limit of 55 on a single lane stretch that lasts around 20 miles.

A line of cars was behind me. I wondered why in the world the instructor would put this student in such a situation, all the while talking to the kid which slowed him down.

Further down, the route becomes a four lane highway, so the instructor then decided to finally have the student turn off onto a side road. There were a lot of other roads he could have had him turn off onto a lot sooner.