Driving

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I've got to the point where I can put off learning to drive no longer and so have been learning for the last few weeks. However it's so boring and I really have to force myself to do it. I came up with "It's like learning to spell, you don't want to but you have too"...

For me part of the reason is unlike other forms of motorised transport you can't have fun as it's almost entirely on roads, where anything fun is illegal. That means the only point of it for me is for work and to get to places.

Anyone else dislike driving? It seems everywhere you go people seem to like driving.


(I didn't put this in motors as it's full of petrol heads, who will obviously like driving)

 

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I absolutely love driving. Still taking lessons at the moment, got my test booked in for November 17th.

I love jumping in the car once a week and finding my clutch control is getting awesomer by the hour.

I get dragged out almost daily with my parents, either to just go and drive or to go to the shops/grandparents etc.

Haven't had any proper lessons yet. Unfortunately I really need to know how to drive as a lot of the jobs I'm interested in mean a lot of driving will be involved.

 

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I was always a little bored by driving, I didn't dislike it, but I found no joy in it, learnt in a nice car, bought a crappy little banger, all very meh, then I got a new car recently, more powerful than I was used to, and because the car tells me to, I drive a bit more agressively, and as such...got done for speeding :/

so I find it depends on the car somewhat, but I don't go out for random drives because I like driving, though I know many who do just get in the car and drive around for hours

Exactly, I'm a speed freak, I do everything fast or it's boring, however in a car that will almost certainly be illegal. Instead you drive around at mundane speeds on a road clogged with other people...

My driving lessons were interesting because my instructor kept pointing out hot girls and generally swooning all over the place.

I like driving though, you don't need to drive illegally to have fun either

But it helps...

Try racing.

Then you'll really hate 'driving'.

Racing I want to have a try at, however car racing has never appealed to me. Motorcycle (especially off road), bike, ski and powerboat racing on the other hand!

Driving is like cycling, walking or running. After some time it becomes just a normal thing (especially if you drive in London every day same route to work), having said that if you do have a chance of driving in different condition ie motorway over the speed limit it brings some kind of excitement.

Exactly, just a mundane task, like spelling, it's not interesting but you need to do it (most of the time).

I can't imagine not driving. Imagine having to rely on people for lifts etc.

Called pedal/feet power and public transport (and I don't mean busses). I have to say I love trains, especially cross country ones. If you're cycling to somewhere you can have fun along the way, cycle fast down some twisty singletrack, jump down some stairs or off walls etc. I'd like to see you do that in a car.

Trains on the other hand, you can just lie back and relax in a comfy relaxed atmosphere while getting there in less or the same time it takes to drive (usually). Or you can drive along clogged roads for 4 hours and be knackered by the time you get there.

Imagine having to regularly use public transport. Ugh.

Nothing wrong with public transport (although I exclude buses in that comment).

that's 'have to' (sp)

Poor mistake!

Their is at least 7 more ways of transport than driving.

Walking
Cycling
Motorbike
Taxi
Bus
Train
Helicopter
Plane
Boat

Exactly.

If he doesn't want to learn how to drive a car, you think he wants to learn how to ride a motorbike, fly a plane or helicopter, or sail a boat?

Actually I do want to learn to ride a motorcycle (in fact I already can off road), I also have powerboating certificates and was going to get a teaching certificate as well. As for flying, I always wanted to do that too, and when I have the money it's something i'm going to do.

I guess the problem is the transport I am already able to use is far more exciting than driving slowly along a flat road. There's nothing more exciting than taking a 5m RIB out into a 5m+ swell and spending half your time airborne (legally), or cycling on some really rough and twisty stuff, or skiing down some narly as hell mountain.

 

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For the safety of the rest of us, please stop learning to drive and take the bus for the rest of your life.

(yes I realise youy probably aren't joking). As I said illegal, so i'm not likely to do it, which is why it's boring (not that that stops the majority of people on the road, it would be interesting to know the percentage of people that speed on a regular basis, probably the vast proportion of drivers!)...

I know how to drive but never did my test.

Driving bored the living hell out of me and makes me angry, hence why I am now leaning to ride a Motorbike (taking my test in about a month).

I want to get a motorcycle licence, unfortunately the type of job I want will probably involve needing to drive a 4x4 around a lot. That added to the fact I can't afford a bike and insurance (using my parents car and will be for a while) means the bike licence has to take a back seat.

 

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Wanting to start but £20 - £25 a lesson makes me cry. Saving up for a semi intensive one where its 6 weeks 2 times a week for 2 hours each.

I guess i'm quite lucky in that I drive with my parents, which means hopefully I should need at max 10 lessons (my sisters only had around that amount) and so only around £200.

 

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I'll use trains quite a bit, especially for trips to London. But sometimes it just doesn't work. My door to my girlfriends door is either:

1.5 mile walk
4 mile bus ride
5 hour train journey with a change in Newport Wales (!?)
5 mile bus ride

Alternatively I can get into my 5 Series, set the climate control to my desired temperature, select my favourite playlist on my ipod and set off. 2 and a half hours later I'm there.



You just need the right car. I am never 'knackered' after a long journey.

Yeah, sometimes a train isn't practical, but a lot of the time, especially travelling from big town/scity to city it is.

That doesn’t matter as they will find their way to this thread.

Yeah, but there will be other normal drivers as well.

 

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I would hate not to drive.

When I was 16 getting to work was a right pain in the arse. Waiting for lifts, getting taxi's which rip you off or relying on the buses which quite frankly are terrible (you end up waiting 15minutes for the bus to get there, sit next to someone who takes up 1and a half seats and then the bus drops you off 30minute walk from your house).

Reason why I made sure I passed my test within 4 weeks

Why didn't you get a job reasonably close you your house?

I worked from 13, at places all over my town (and out), and on a bike (how i got there 90% of the time) it would normally take me 10-15 minutes to one place and 30 mins to another. A bike will give you a radius or around 4-5miles from your house for an easy amble, which will cover most medium-large size towns if you live reasonably close to the centre. (For reference going by car to the two places mentioned would have taken 10 and 15 minutes, so not much extra time..)

(obviously it's not going to work if you live in a village miles from nowhere...)