Anyone tried to teach their partners to drive?

As Fox has said i think it's not so much the case of passing at 17 but more the fact of having no interest in cars and driving in general that makes for poor drivers.

Myself, i couldn't wait to pass. 2 months after i was 17 and i passed. I was also very keen to get on the road at 16 with getting a geared motorbike.
 
Amoeba said:
To be fair the majority of this thread is about teaching 'girlfriends' to drive, which I would wager are a fair bit younger than 40.
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It's called 'partners' though. Partner is an odd term used usually when either:

a) You are gay
b) You are embarrased that you still have a girlfriend and are not married, ie you are probably about 40.

Personally I hate the term 'partner'.
 
[TW]Fox;20376502 said:
I honestly think that if somebody didnt show enough interest in driving to be wanting to get it done at 17, 18 etc then they are more likely than not to never make a particularly good driver. People generally suck at things they have no interest in. Case in point, I suck at Cricket.
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OR - you have no interest in it because you suck at it. Imagine if you suddenly became Shane Warne, everything you bowled left batsmen in disarray, fans flocked to you at every moment, hordes of young impressionable ladies batting their eyelashes at you,....

... Would cricket become more interesting?
 
My 15year old is fine with throttle & brakes, she's picked it up quite well.

Steering is a bit iffy, I've found it easier to teach her that with my PC, wheel & Dirt 3 / f1 2011 than by sat next to her in my car tbh.
Although when she was a lot younger, she used to steer my truck around the yard at a weekend, she seems to give as much steering input as if she were in the truck still.
 
therealnerd2 said:
OR - you have no interest in it because you suck at it.
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If I had a great deal of interest in cricket i'd probably have been out playing it lots and therefore, whilst not captaining the England team, would probably be a few rungs above sucking at it.

Generally, people are more likely to excel at something they enjoy doing.
 
[TW]Fox;20377401 said:
Generally, people are more likely to excel at something they enjoy doing.
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It's a good thing you don't need to excel at driving on the road to have a licence (although it would be nice to get those who do not off the road instead of clogging them up with their slow, dithering and indecisive driving!).


Anyway, OP, stop giving her lessons until she is comfortable behind the wheel. She needs an instructor with dual controls and lots of patience. Give her some booster lessons when she is nearly at test standards.
 
[TW]Fox;20377728 said:
It's a good thing? Perhaps for the person who isnt very good, not for everyone else!
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It wouldn't be very good for the economy either. What do you reckon the percentage of licence holders who excel at driving?
 
[TW]Fox;20377277 said:
It's called 'partners' though. Partner is an odd term used usually when either:

a) You are gay
b) You are embarrased that you still have a girlfriend and are not married, ie you are probably about 40.

Personally I hate the term 'partner'.
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Haha. That is very true. She is actually 20. I'm 21. She is also female :p

It was late... no idea why I used the word partner... bad choice :(
 
One of my ex's said she'd had lessons but never taken the test and it had been ages since she'd been in the driving seat, so I suggested we go up the farm and practice, so we swapped sides, buckled up and then she asked what to do. :-/
She literally had no clue where to start, didn't know which pedal was which and couldn't understand the concept of a steering wheel.

Lesson over there and then. :D
I suggested she get a professional instructor before arguments were caused. :D
 
Just stick at it imo, providing you have the patience.

My dad taught me, saved a lot of money... His exact words were "I'd never thought you get it, but one day you just clicked". This was after several hours/lessons lol.
 
I tried. I failed....

She was on an empty carpark and I told her to turn, she turned the wheel about 5 degrees and i had to pull the handbrake before she hit the wall after yelling for her to TURN!!!!

Told her to get the **** out and never tried after that... We split up not too long after that
 
I taught my other half how to drive a few years back. Then she took a load of lessons, and learned how to pass the test.

Two very different things IMO.
 
I'm teaching my GF at the moment. She had a few lessons about 9 years ago but gave up.

It can be stressful, but after about 10 hours she's more or less got the control sorted and we are working on observation and roadcraft.

She's a whinge a couple of times about me shouting etc but I've only shouted when there has been good reason to - ie avoiding a collision.

I paid for 3 lessons with an instructor, but she didn't like him and he didn't tell her anything different what what I'm telling her. He was much more picky than I am - I've consiously let her be a bit slack with the mirrors to allow her to concentrate on car control and we'll bring that bit on later.

However, I cannot seem to teach her how to reverse. I've taken her to huge empty car parks and told her to reverse generally left and right but she can't even compute which way to turn the steering wheel. When she does get it, usually with me pointing, she can't get within 5 meters of where I tell her to aim for! More work needed here.
 
[TW]Fox;20376502 said:
I honestly think that if somebody didnt show enough interest in driving to be wanting to get it done at 17, 18 etc then they are more likely than not to never make a particularly good driver. People generally suck at things they have no interest in. Case in point, I suck at Cricket.
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I rushed out and got my licence at 17 very very keenly. I then lost it again at 18 (no insurance - 6 points - first two years - acknowledge I'm a **** and have definitely learned my lesson). It took me until September 2010, when I was 24, to work up the enthusiasm to pass again, and that's only because my job depended on it.

Passed with one minor though :p
 
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