Like, how many sessions? Or how many hours?
2006-08-31 04:29:58 · 28 answers · asked by GoldPenny 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
BLUF - I got my license about 6 months after my 16th birthday... so i guess it was 6 months.
I watched my father for years. As I approached my 16th birthday I watched even more. As I had good grades he let me get the driver's testing book and study. A day after my 16th birthday he let me take my written test - - I passed. That weekend we went to the local high school and he put me behind the wheel. I was allowed to drive in the neighborhood for two weeks; of course a licensed driver was in the car with me. After 2 weeks we ventured out on the 2-lane road that connected our neighborhood with the highway. Within a month I was allowed to drive to the store, on the highway. Then it was driving at night, practicing parallel parking, practicing driving in reverse, and all the other little things you do on the driving test.
2006-08-31 04:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by TC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my dad started teaching me right before I started drivers ed. He took me out for about an hour everyday for a week and I started to get the hang of it after about the third session I would say, but I don't think I learned how to drive really well until I actually got my license and started driving on my own because my parents hardly ever let me drive when I had my permit.
2006-08-31 11:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took 2 hour classes for 3 days to learn how to drive the vehicle. Then I had to study 2 hours a day for a week to pass the driving/written test to get my license.
2006-08-31 11:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by Martha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Total actual driving time no more than a few hours (most of that to learn to drive a stick). Add a few hours to read the book you need to take the test but most of those are straightforward if you've been riding as a passenger for any length of time. Of course, if your talking about New Jersey drivers then forget it, none of them know how to drive and having recently been in Rhode Island I figured out where NJ drivers have to go for their training.
2006-08-31 11:38:32 · answer #4 · answered by BrianR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Together-9 Hours (Including A Stick). and 2 Lessons.
(To A level Of total Competency)
2006-08-31 11:31:57 · answer #5 · answered by Spaghetti MY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It took about 10 sessions for me to really get confident to the point where I felt I could do it alone.
After that, it's really about being defensive, reading signs, and trying not to be too distracted by mood, cell phones, kids crying, cats crossing streets, etc.
And this important driving rule: 2 objects can not occupy the same space at the same time.
2006-08-31 11:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of logged hours? Zero.
I was able to do both the written and driving test and pass the first time without having any real sort of training. Yay for the power of videogame simulators and common sense.
In seriousness, I don't think you learn crap about driving through classes and such, all that needs to be learned by practical experience. because how you're SUPPOSED to drive is not how people really do it in real life, and you need to be prepared for that. If you fill your head with a ton of rules of the road that you're supposed to follow, you'll get a false sense of security that the other drivers will follow those rules, and that's when people get killed.
2006-08-31 11:34:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I got the basics down pretty well in about 4 hours, but I wasn't really comfortable for the first year or so. I think my driving skills continued to improve a lot during each of the first three years.
2006-08-31 11:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have to learn parallel parking it takes longer but not very long. It shouldn't take more than a day. If you have to learn stick shift it takes about a week. And then another 3 to 6 months before you are completely comfortable with it.
2006-08-31 11:34:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh God!!! Did you ask the right person....damn. Although I passed the written part of driver's ed the first time, my driver's ed teacher made me do the driving part with him THREE times. So, ya I was a SECOND SEMESTER JR. IN HIGHSCHOOOL still taking driver's ed. Oh, and I also drove with my mom about a hundred hours, 4 times the requirement. Not to mention (I live in a small town) my driver's ed teacher ONLY gave me my blueslip after the three times of going through the driving part with him, because he knew my mom wouldn't let me drive in a near by town that was bigger than our town. If that isn't sad....I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!!
2006-08-31 11:36:13 · answer #10 · answered by Green Tea Happy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋