Where to kids learn to drive

[buck12]

The color of the Explorer wouldn't be white by any chance would it? I had a white one a while back and it seemed like everyone was aiming for it...broadsided once, rear ended twice, and the final blow was a drunk driver smashing into it when it was parked. All occurring in abut a 18 month span. The last one finally totaled it. Was glad to get rid of it. Funny thing was it was parked on the street because it was for sale...insurance ended up giving me about $1500 more than what I was asking.

Yep, pearl white. Every vehicle my wife has owned except one has been white. White seems to attract teens and deer. I have hit two deer both in white vehicles. Come to think about it I also drive a white work vehicle and it has been hit in a parking lot.

 

[Taylortractornut]

We live in a small town with one redlight. not much traffic to learn with. I still dont think drivers ed teaches how to approach a 4 way stop. Most of my driving was with dad. On the weekend he woul drive the backroads to state line to the beer store. Id drive him back lol. When I was 15 I was driving 2 stick Macks and 9 and 10 speed road tractor.

My wife drives me crazy with lane changes and merging and riding the left lane.

 

[nickel plate]

My dad taught me to drive at the duck club at the age of twelve on a private levy dirt road that was about two miles long off of the main asphalt road to the clubhouse. Since we usually went in friday night (not my time to drive) and left on sunday afternoon, I was given the helm of the 1951 Buick (robin's egg blue with the lobster AM radio antenna) and told to and respected a speed limit of twenty miles per hour, just like Allan (sp) Jackson's song.
To further date this rememberance of my childhood years at the "Lonsome Mallard" duck club, there were ten charter members sharing a section of prime waterfowl land and on one evening some of them and us kids stood out on a dark morning and watched the first ever orbited Russian satellite
"Sputnick" cross over our ponds. In that viewing attendance were duck club shareholders Walter Hewlett and Dave Packard. I was my father's kid.

 

[JB4310]

To further date this rememberance of my childhood years at the "Lonsome Mallard" duck club, there were ten charter members sharing a section of prime waterfowl land and on one evening some of them and us kids stood out on a dark morning and watched the first ever orbited Russian satellite
"Sputnick" cross over our ponds. In that viewing attendance were duck club shareholders Walter Hewlett and Dave Packard. I was my father's kid.

Wow that had to be, well, memorable to say the least, probably even a little frightening for the adults, thinking about the future in a whole new way.

And HP ??

JB.

 

[creekbend]

Wow that had to be, well, memorable to say the least, probably even a little frightening for the adults, thinking about the future in a whole new way.

And HP ??

JB.

Reading these two previous posts brought back memories. Training Union had just let out at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, and while my Mother and I were going down the steps to our truck, there was quite a lot of commotion in the parking lot. Everyone was looking up to the sky. It looked just like a star and was moving from left to right in the night sky. I found out later that it was a Russian spacecraft. The year was 1957 and I was 6 years old. I remember the moment like it only happened "yesterday".

 

[jmurray01]

These days as soon as most people get their driving license they think they rule the road (or parking lot in your case), and if another car gets in the way, who cares, because they can just barge through!

Apart from being unsafe, their antics also mean when I get my license, and drive carefully, as I will, I'll be paying thousands per year for insurance because of teenagers who get behind the wheel without any morals for anybodies safety, or their own for that matter.

In the last year I have seen many road accidents on the local news where a person under 20 years old was driving and crashed the car, then died.

 

[sandman2234]

I think my daughter was 11 when she got behind the wheel of a tractor trailer (bob-tail). Big empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere, I thought it would be something she would remember for years. Last week she asked me about teaching her to drive(for a living). Not sure if I am going to be able to, due to my company's rules about passengers, but at least I can get her the groundwork.
David from jax

 

[jlukem]

I started driving when I was 7.. sitting on my grandad's lap and he let me steer. At 9 he gave me a 1964 scout and I had to figure out how to make it go. I had 500+ acres. He had all the time in the world so he sat in the passenger seat until I figured it out. Around 11 he had me on 50 horse tractors doing basic mesquite root grubbing and loader work filling in holes on the farm roads.

By 12 he had me on a 100Hp IH tractor with a 15' mower and I was clearing pastures.

I've been letting my 8 year old drive for the last few months. I put my F250 in 4x Low and he puts it in drive and goes. He's fine up to about 40mph on the single lane dirt roads around our place. I've also got him driving the Polaris ranger from time to time and he does ok. I don't let him on the tractor or mower yet because he's just not ready.

-Luke

 

[Redneck in training]

When I was young we could get DL at 18. If we could get hands on a car we were absolutely out of control. We would pick up girls in town and the more they screamed the faster we drove. We had many closed calls. Wonder how we survived.

So based on my personal experience we started kids driving as soon as they showed some interest hoping that when they will be 16 the driving won稚 be big deal anymore and they would also have some experience. They had to buy their own cars too. Nevertheless I caught my 16 years daughter doing over 100 mph on 55 mph road. In fact I was in the car realizing that the trees look suddenly like a picket fence. When asking why she was going so fast she answered that she forgot I was in the car. Then it was a dilemma let her drive her own car or let her drive with somebody else probably going at the same speed. We talked to the kids about safe driving and hoped that they would listen. They are both grown up and so far had no major car wrecks.
I think they should start driving young when you still have some control over them. When they are 16 they should be already reasonably experienced drivers because at that age, if you are not around, they do as they please.

 

[LBrown59]

I learned or at least did a lot of praticing at the County Fair grounds.