Learning to drive with parents?

metamorphpwner

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i've finally started to take driving lessons now with a proper instructor, only had a few lessons.
Does anyone know what the laws/rules are about a parent teaching/helping me to drive please.
i've had a go in my sisters car with her on private land, but would i be ok to E.G. drive to the shop and back ect.
 
metamorphpwner said:
i've finally started to take driving lessons now with a proper instructor, only had a few lessons.
Does anyone know what the laws/rules are about a parent teaching/helping me to drive please.
i've had a go in my sisters car with her on private land, but would i be ok to E.G. drive to the shop and back ect.
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Providing you're with someone older than 21 (or is it at least 3 years?) who holds a full driving license, and that you're insured on that vehicle.

If I'm wrong, someone will probably correct me.
 
metamorphpwner said:
i'd actually need to be on their insurance? does that mean the driving instructor has a different type of insurance because he's not even mentioned insurance.
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Yeh you'll need to be on their insurance.

Your instructor will have a policy that covers people he is teaching to drive.
 
metamorphpwner said:
i'd actually need to be on their insurance? does that mean the driving instructor has a different type of insurance because he's not even mentioned insurance.
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As an instructor I'm sure he'd have his own insurance for his own car. However, to learn in your own car or parents car, you personally need to be insured to drive it.
 
My brother is learning at the moment. You need a provisional licence, insurance on the car, and someone in the car that has held their licence for more than 3 years (and the good old 'L' plates aswell). Then you are free to drive anywhere on UK roads except motorways :D.

Driving with you parents is a way of getting experience without shelling out a fortune on driving lessons. You only really need lessons to learn the basics (so you dont wreck the gears on your parents car :P)
 
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I'd personally just take the lessons in your instructors car. Correct me if I'm wrong but it'll probably work out cheaper just paying for lessons? You don't need to worry about the hassle of insurance or switching cars for every lesson.
 
neon.uk said:
My brother is learning at the moment. You need a provisional licence, insurance on the car, and someone in the car that has held their licence for more than 3 years (and the good old 'L' plates aswell). Then you are free to drive anywhere on UK roads except motorways :D.
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got everything apart from bieng insured on their car, after a few lessons i'm sure i'd be allowed on it, then it can keep my lesson costs down a bit.
 
I think its a great idea having an hours lesson with your instructor then going out with your parents and practise what you have just done. Did me the world of good and I passed in 10hours of lessons because I had another ~10hours of "lessons" with my parents. Saved me a good amount of time and money, but beware things can get tense. Nearly everytime I went out with my mum I would end up swearing at her for panicking at everything I was doing even though it was perfectly fine.
 
shifty_uk said:
I'd personally just take the lessons in your instructors car. Correct me if I'm wrong but it'll probably work out cheaper just paying for lessons? You don't need to worry about the hassle of insurance or switching cars for every lesson.
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the car bit of that isn't a problem, my mum has almost the same car as the guy teaching me.
you're maybe right about the cost also, although depending on the cost of insurance i might be able to get more driving time with me parents than i can get with the instructor.

but it is maybe a better idea to wait till nearer my test(quite a while) before going on their insurance.
 
tsinc80697 said:
I think its a great idea having an hours lesson with your instructor then going out with your parents and practise what you have just done. Did me the world of good and I passed in 10hours of lessons because I had another ~10hours of "lessons" with my parents. Saved me a good amount of time and money, but beware things can get tense. Nearly everytime I went out with my mum I would end up swearing at her for panicking at everything I was doing even though it was perfectly fine.
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lol, that's would happen with my mum, and probably my dad. even in a car-park my dad kept his hand on the handbreak, was my first time in a car though(driving)/
 
You've just got to make sure theyre comfortable otherwise no point, both end up wound up and learning nothing!
I could have never gone out with my dad, no the right person for it and I highly doubt Ill ever take anyone out because I dont have any patience.
 
A more pertinent question would be whether your sister has held a full licence for over three years? Only asking as, if she hasn't, you're breaking the law and may not be aware of it.
 
yes there is an up to date cd of all the real theory test questions and a dvd with example (not real) hazard perception. Both of them together cost more than the theory test iirc. In wh smith at least.
Questions were worth it though as I passed 50/50, and the HP was useful just to work out how it worked (61/75 on that one). It is easy but it's probably a mistake to be complacent about it :)
 
metamorphpwner said:
Anyone know if there's a new/upto date driving theory test out, for pc so i could have a practice on that before taking the test.
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Not sure if it's entirely up to date now, but when I sat my theory in January, the All Tests dvd from Focus Multimedia was the best one by far - £5.99 at your local supermarket - this one has the most Hazard Perception videos and Theory Questions out of all the dvds that I tried.


S.
 
metamorphpwner said:
Anyone know if there's a new/upto date driving theory test out, for pc so i could have a practice on that before taking the test.
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Google.. Driving Test Success 2008/2009 its available for about 8 quid from that jungle place online.

Includes Theory and Hazard Perception testing, very easy to use and the software is almost identical to that used by the theory test centre's
 
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