£5000? Jesus Christ, hope that’s atypical since I’m planning on trying to get a license this year.
I did it in 25 hours at £30 per hour.
Everybody is different and learns thing at different paces. I also did automatic only so that makes it easier.
The theory was the one for me. Couldn’t bring myself to study, damn ADHD, but I do have general common sense and I pick up things from the environment so I figured I could just hope I got questions I knew. Failed once then passed next one.
My mate gave me his theory CD that was endorsed by the AA or BSM or something, I just repeatedly did the exam….passed the theory exam second time, cause I failed hazard perception the first time.
I did…I want to say about 35 hours?
And I also supplemented with a g25 wheel/pedal set and ETS2.
Which helped more than you might expect (gear positions, clutch control, dealing with other traffic, blind spots)
G25 has been lent out to multiple friends to do the same thing too, so definitely paid for itself.
Theory, once you’re paying attention to the road in general, isn’t too bad at all. I paid about a fiver for month’s access to a revision website, which had the material, and almost identical hazard perception clips.
Mate, congratulations!
But after that many lessons, and still passing with those errors, are you sure you should be driving?
I had a friend that failed 2 times before making it. He’s a safe driver, but the pressure got to him, especially after failing once.
You’re allowed (iirc) 15 minors and still get a pass.
Minor issues are generally things that are mistakes, but mild enough that so long as you work to improve, the examiner is happy to pass you.
The same categories also have Major versions (1 fault fails the test) and Dangerous (1 fault halts the test entirely).
Control steering might be that OP had slightly sub optimal wheel technique, which meant they had a moment the examiner would have like to have seen both hands on.
Move off control might mean that they dumped the clutch a bit pulling away one time, and it wasn’t smooth.
Awareness/Planning/Junction right could all have happened in the same manoeuvre (candidate hesitating at a junction, and pulling out after a car they could have comfortably gone before if they were more aware)
Progress: Appropriate speed can be missing that a speed limit has changed from 20 to 30, then accelerating when you realise.
I’ve still got the rap sheet from when I passed, and you can be damned sure after passing I was ironing them out.
What the fuck am I looking at??
But this is a UK sub, with a U.K. driving school, presumably posted by a Brit.
which was the point?
uk driving school takes itself seriously
I can understand maybe being confused by my comment but my other 2 in this thread right below would have cleared it up
What’s the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?
Because that’s what I see, and frankly don’t understand it. Today’s cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.
All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.
If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It’s really hard to keep trying when it feels like you’re just always struggling.
if only automatic transmissions made people know and obey traffic laws, not run red lights or drive drunk
but my point was about the weakly enforced education component and how relatively easy it is to get a license in the US
so even if he struggled the fact he was required to show minimum competence instead of simply processed through is my point
You make it sound free lol. I definitely would love to make it harder to get a license In the USA, but you have to learn, get a permit, drive with an adult for six months, pass at least one written and one driven test. Spending 5200£ is fucking ludicrous. No test should be that hard
i watched a guy have his mom basically do his eye exam for him when i was waiting for a renewal once my belief on the dmv sticking to the rules is low
no test should be that expensive but it for sure should be that hard as driving kills so many people
it’s pretty common to have part of the requirement be drivers ed in schools around here and the stories i hear from extended family are crazy
that also ignores issues like the elderly as well, 72 year old lady ran a red light t boned my mom, totaled my mazda truck to where the wheel came off 40+ through a red light no breaks, shed had her lawyer on speed dial he beat the ambulance there, this was her second one that month (no charges)
the us is so car dependent and so lacking in mass transportation that we let almost anyone drive
how many dui repeats on the road? hint its real bad
Congrats for sticking with it.
Yikes, maybe you should stay off the road.
It’s worth saying the number of minors is absolute, so they could’ve been in a single period (eg if they knew they made a mistake on the reverse park, so were nervous and drove slower for a bit and stalled a couple of times)
I had the same thing where I racked up around 10 minors during/after my emergency stop was partly botched but still safe. I was explicitly told I passed because they were all still safe, within a short interval and I recovered quickly from it.
That said, 1.5 years of learning is a long time to still be shaky after
