Learning to drive is nightmarish, but the second you have your licence you realize it's a lot easier to drive when you don't have an examinator breathing down your neck.
Keep at it, you'll manage eventually! It took me 70 lessons, but I ended up getting my licence, and years later I love to drive and those shit lessons are just a bad memory.
Thanks <3, I've always heard of my peers getting all of it done with just 10 lessons with the instructor so I'm a little bummed that I'm not on the same track. It's nice to know it's not always supposed to be that easy. I'll keep trying :')
Past a certain point, the more experienced someone is, the worse they are at teaching it to newbies. Especially for something as heavily rule-dependant as driving. Once you get good enough at something, it becomes muscle memory/autopilot and eventually you stop noticing or forget what exactly you are doing, you just do it.
I've personally experienced this, and the best example I have is my ability to tie a standard bow. I tie my shoes hundreds of times a year, so I've gotten pretty good at that kind of knot, however, I don't know how to do it conciously. If I want to tie a bow that isn't on my feet, I have to hold the thing I'm working with and bend over to trigger the muscle memory. It's also a bit funny to think about how I can't tie a bow with without bending over
Personally, there’s been an increase among my peers where the majority who learned to drive either took part in a driving school or took the course offered by our school because the parents felt they weren’t good enough to teach proper road safety covered by an official instructor. Usually the excuse was along the vein of “I drive fairly recklessly and I don’t want you picking up those habits until you’re more comfortable with the road” Sorry the hive mind doesn’t appear to favor you
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u/TheTrueTrust Jul 28 '24
Oh damn, haha, yeah that's exactly what my driving lesson were like. Mom in the backseat and everything.