Who first taught you how to drive an automobile?

My sister let me drive when I was around 12 or 13.
Bad idea.
I then learned through driver’s ed in high school.

Driver’s Ed in high school. I was 16.

I’ve driven 2x, once in an stick shift (boyfriend was the instructor) and once with an automatic (cousin was the instructor).

I’ll learn to drive properly by a school soon, but I preferred the stick shift. I felt like I had more control of the car.

Driving training course. I had a crush on the teacher.

He didn’t teach me the rules, but the first time I drove was with my grandpa. He let me and my sister take an old car out into the woods on his property and drive around on wider trails and in fields. : ) I learned how to steer a car very well, very fast—it was that or hit the trees.
I read the rules and then learned them in real-time with a driving instructor on the road.
My dad taught me stick-shift after I had my license.
Now, when I drive, I drive my family’s (smaller, older) red truck, everything about it manual. (I’ve named her Jill.)

My father. He’d take me to huge, empty parking lots so that I couldn’t possibly screw up too badly.

My grandmother. My grandfather and my stepdad had let me drive their automatic transmission cars before but grandma taught me to control a stick shift, to park, back up, all the real driving stuff. I was 11 and it was hard since I was under 5ft.

My father started out teaching me. He had no patience and yelled a lot. I ended up pulling over and getting out of the car on one such occasion. So I actually learned in drivers ed. But my best buddy in school taught me to drive an automatic. He was very patient.

I think I got cheated out of drivers ed at school. It wasn’t invented, yet.

My best friends father taught me. My parents were scared and thought that I would get them killed. But I also had to go through drivers ed. Which I must say sucked, and the tester guy should never be allowed to test much less even drive.

No one yet. My housemate says she’s going to teach me!

First my Dad when I was about 14 or 15, then I took drivers ed in school, then my best friend and more Dad assistance when I learned to drive a stick at 18.

Niles North High School drivers ed. The hamburger films were cruel and unusual punishment.

My dad was the first and taught me the most. Although, I have to say my driving course that I took to get my license was excellent, I learned a ton.

The first to teach me how to drive a stick was a friend of a friend.

I learned by watching and by playing video games.

Seriously, when I was six, I already understood not only that when the engine made a certain sound you had to press the left pedal, move the lever in the middle, and let the left pedal back out, I also understood when and why. That puts me a step above many people on the road today! By ten, I knew many of the rules of the road and how they sometimes superseded/broke the law. Nobody taught me those things either.

As for playing video games, understand that some of the racing games are quite realistic, and even without them, it doesn’t take much to learn the difference between FWD, RWD, and 4WD/AWD and how they handle differently under different conditions like rain, snow, or ice. Understeer and oversteer are simple physics though watching people trying to drive in Seattle in the winter makes me think some people are simpler and video games are a good way to get experience with them without causing actual damage/injury/death.

However, I got my license rather late in life’ I spent my late-teens and early-20s in the Navy and thus had no need of a car or a license. Well, no need that couldn’t also be met by a valid Military ID. Given the parking situation for E-6 and below on many bases, a car would’ve actually been worse than useless. Wen I finally got one, I didn’t even study , nailed the written with a 20/20 score, and the only points I got dinged for on the road test were for not adjusting the mirrors before starting the car. (No need to since I drove that car there so they were already right, but the proctor didn’t believe that :p)

Driver’s Ed in high school. Got my license at 16 but had no car. I really got my first regular ride in Germany as a jeep driver in the Army. So that was my first “car”. And it was a fun car. I still remember its ser# from all the times I got a dispatch. http://www.4wdonline.com/Mil/M151/M151.html Good times

I first drove when I was about 10 ..an old pick up truck. All my dad told me was “Here’s the gas, the break and the steering wheel; now follow your brother to grandma’s.” I had to sit on some jackets, on the edge of the seat. I then attempted to follow my brother, who was 12 years old, about 5km (3 miles) from our house to grandma’s. My brother didn’t wait for me and sped all the way there. We lived on a farm. My dad was short of help and needed another vehicle at grandma’s farm. It was harvest time. I was terrified but I made it there (despite almost hitting a grain truck on the way and veering into the ditch a bit). I was a bit scared to drive after that.

Actually learning to drive though…hmm. I think it was when I was 16. My mom’s pothead/crackhead boyfriend showed me the basics. And, yes, he was completely inebriated at the time. We were in a field near the hamlet we lived in. The other time, we were in a grocery store parking lot. I hit a sign in front of the vehicle while forgetting to hold down the break as I looked in the rearview mirror (the vehicle was in drive still). Oh, and the sign was a “No Parking” sign. Good times.

Most of my driving was taught by myself via trial and error though.

Shortly after I got my license, one of my aunts tried to teach how to drive a standard. Lots of whiplashes went on there. I am still not experienced in standards.

I think I got my driver’s license around 25 or 26 years old. I just didn’t need it much until then.

Myself when I stole that bulldozer from the building site.
A fully qualified instructor, she was hawt too, perhaps I charmed my way through the test…grrrr! ;¬}

High school driver’s Ed.

I learned to drive in a high school driver’s ed course but my dad taught me how to drive a stick.

My grandfather had me drive the pickup out in a hay field. I was 8 years old.

My older brother taught me how to drive initially, followed up with driver’s ed. But the real fun came when I learned to drive a stick shift, taught by a boyfriend.

My best friend. She’s a year older than I am, so she had her license before I did. She taught me in her mom’s old beat-up Civic when I was 16.

I didn’t actually get my license until 19, though, because my driving instructor was a perv and I’m kind of lazy.

I had a professional driving instructor who came once a week but my mum spent a lot of time driving around with me so that I cvould practise in between lessons. It is one thing that I am very grateful to her for.

My Dad taught me how to drive. He did a great job. I took driver’s education in order to get reduced insurance rates. I did not learn much about driving but it did prepare me for the written test.

My roommate just took me out for a driving lesson. I learned how to stall. . .