What age did you learn to drive at?

semi-pro waster said:
I don't know how valuable it is if you've got no intention of driving. I passed when I was 17 or 18 and barely drove again until I was about 25 because I rarely had a need to - having the skill wasn't necessarily all that valuable in any quantifiable sense although I'm glad I passed when I was younger.
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Perhaps you had no need to becuase you didnt have the means, if that makes sense. For example I cannot imagine going on holiday and not renting a car.
 
17. Always loved cars, didn't see the point in waiting. Passed in roughly 6 months.
 
[TW]Fox;22498489 said:
Perhaps you had no need to becuase you didnt have the means, if that makes sense. For example I cannot imagine going on holiday and not renting a car.
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That might have something to do with it as I've not always had much disposable income and so have prioritised different things. I'd suspect I probably also don't value the ability to drive quite as highly as you do, it's something I enjoy (for the most part and more so when not in London) but where I've lived it hasn't been a vital skill as the places have either been small enough or had good enough transport to render it a luxury.
 
I was 21/22 and only really then as I was offered half price lessons by someone I know.
 
my dad took me on private land when i was 16 quite oftern and 2 months later when i turned 17 i phoned a driving instructor and started "real" lessons then.

i should mention the private land was tiny, was a square about 30x30 meters, helped me with finding the bite and changing gears tho.
 
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I only passed a couple of months before I was 29 - I'm 31 in a few days now so I've only had my license a little over 2 years. I've racked up nearly 120,000 miles in that time so I've made up for it a bit I feel :)

Not really sure why I didn't learn sooner. Money wasn't really a problem and I always knew there'd be advantages to doing so. I guess I just didn't feel I was ready or just simply didn't want to but my job progression ended up making it a requirement. Before I actually got a car everyone used to say the usual stuff like "you'll wonder how you ever got by" etc and to some degree I knew it'd be true but it really is a bigger deal than I ever thought. I wouldn't ever want to be without a car now.

Also your instructor is right. Almost everyone else on the road IS an idiot so you really should treat them all as such. It works for me.
 
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17. Helps with much lower insurance for when I actually needed and bought a car (at 20). If I'd passed when I was 20 (apart from having to fit in lessons etc and no guarantee of having passed by the time I needed to), it would have cost me a whole lot more than the grand sum of £450 :p

Annoyingly, I'm now unable to beat that quote with the same car despite having several years' more no claims, not to mention age and no accidents etc. :confused: :mad:
 
21, just after I graduated. Needed a car for job interviews (and eventually getting to said job). Did have driving lessons whilst at uni, during the holidays when I went home but it was a waste of time and money really because I was never there long enough to actually get everything done.
 
First got behind the wheel of a car when I was 11 and my step-dad let me drive his Golf GTI up and down some small tarmac roads on some private land. Car's still going at 193,000 miles so I couldn't have been that bad :p

My dad started taking me out in my sisters car (she was 'learning' at the same time) when I was 17, found it all pretty simple. My dad was wondering why I already knew how to do anything, but I never told him my step-dad had let me drive before. Had four lessons with an instructor at 18 and then left it for some reason after I had a few weeks where I was too busy to take lessons. Took another year before I booked another lesson, second lesson I was told to put in for my test and I did so. Another three lessons later and I passed my test August last year with one minor.

Can't believe it's almost been a year already.
 
andy_mk3 said:
I passed 7 weeks after my 17th birthday.
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Same!

Had a bike at 16 also. I'm ever so glad i did it then rather than now due to the cost of it all. A lot has changed since i past. Then again though, it's practically impossible to live in Cornwall without a car.
 
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