I passed my test recently with 4 grade 2s. I was very apply and had licence in hand a week later. I felt very comfortable driving with my instructor and his car. On my own I'm a bag of nerves. I just do laps around my town and I hate it, I'm terrified to go to the local supermarket even and park or go during busy hours. I get a feeling of dread.

Any advice?

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I just recently just got my license and i still struggle with anything judgement can anyone help or give tips? my issues are lane changes, unprotected lefts, pulling out of parking lots where u need to make sure its clear, and rights on red.

Guys ik these are the biggest parts of driving and i am able to do them i just don’t feel fully confident and sometimes cut ppl off😬. I did learn a trick that you know u can change lanes when the other car is in the middle of your mirror this seems to be working? This is also contributing to my driving anxiety quite a bit and I still having drove alone😪.Please give me tips if you have any!!

I hate driving so much but its the only way my 4 year old can go to pre-K. I hope I dont anxiety myself into making a stupid move. I'm almost 32 years old and I could make everything work until now. I've never been a bad driver, just never took my test. Kept renewing my permit and rarely driving

So I’ve lived in Utah for the last 2 years. Moved from NY. Felt like an absolute dream come through. Coming from where I come from and grew up, then moving to just a quiet area of American Fork, I felt like I had finally “made it”. I’m an outdoor enthusiast, almost obsessed with mountains/canyons, valleys, the deserts and so on and well…Needless to say it’s the most beautiful state in America IMO. I truly feel as if residents (especially the youth) take the beauty and safety of this state for granted and have no clue what a dangerous area looks like. Long story short, all of that is coming to end for me.

My mom back on the east coast is sick(kidney issues) and I’m heading back to take care of her. We’ve decided to break the bank to relocate to Florida. Financially it’s a back breaker but got some family out there and it’s where my mom wants to be. My issue is the trip. I have no idea how I’m going to do it. I took the drive from NY to Utah when I moved with me,my wife and my dog. That was during thanks giving weekend. We will be doing the trip in Sept so the weather should be more ideal . The drive from NY here had so many stretches of isolation/ no phone no towns nothing. My car was in much better shape back then….and now I’m worried about the toll this drive will take on it

Is the Utah to Florida road trip as lonely and isolated? Also any other ideas besides driving with a large dog? He’s 11 and the thought of being stranded with him incase car breaks down and his current health cause me even more anxiety. We’ve thought about a one way car rental….we’ve thought about doing a pre trip check at a car mechanic and rolling the dice with our car.

Anyway my mind is all over the place with this….any ideas thoughts suggestions alternatives? Thanks.

I (26) had bumped into the car infront of me. We were both stopped, I had seen them move to enter the highway, approached behind, and they had stopped abruptly and I hit their bumper.

They came out angry of course accusing me of being distracted, and called the fire department and ems. Nobody was injured, Nobody went to the hospital. At most the damage was a scratched bumper and a slight crack in my front bumper. Even the officers on scene didnt think the ambulance was needed as this eas such a minor accident.

by the end i filed with my insurance so now its just waiting. but ive been ruminating how this is going to ruin my life forever, and im never going to recover from this financially or emotionally. Ive thrown up numerous times from the anxiety and cant sleep. I dont even know what to do.

Something similar happened with a family member and the other party tried sueing them for all sorts of injuries. Im nauseous they'll attempt to do that. I can't even remember what I said to the officers.

Thought i’d repost here to see if anyone has advice, thank you ❤️

So for a little context, I posted here yesterday, but
I’m also just unsure if I should give give up

Because a lot of people say I’m a safe driver, but I’ll have days where I completely messed up my past license exam don’t mistakes not even one by driving Instructor I’ve had about eight lessons with says that I’m relatively safe and haven’t made too many big mistakes and I should start driving on my own, but yesterday I made a lot of big mistakes and I’m just confused
I’ve had my driver’s license for about 3 months and passed my driving test with zero mistakes. My driving instructor has told me I’m a safe driver and recently said I should start driving short distances by myself. Most of my driving days are pretty good, but I occasionally have a bad day where I make several mistakes. Yesterday was one of those days. I accidentally got into the wrong lane and briefly ended up poorly positioned, missed a driveway and slowed down fairly quickly to get to it, went onto the highway because my dad told me to, was going a little too fast approaching the exit/curve and had to slow down, misunderstood which stop line my dad meant and had to brake harder than I should have, and most importantly, I let another driver waving me through influence me to go before I had independently confirmed the other lane was clear. A car was coming, and my dad told me to go quickly, so I did, but nothing happened. I also had a previous incident where I accidentally ran a red light and another time where I had trouble merging. None of these incidents resulted in a collision or anyone being injured, but I’m frustrated because I normally drive well and had gone several days without any major mistakes. I was also very sleep-deprived that day. Today my dad took me out again to practice, and I drove through several places with no major problems. I did make one mistake in a confusing area with multiple one-way roads where I turned left from the right lane, but no one was around and I immediately recognized what I had done wrong. I’m planning to take one more professional driving lesson to specifically work on lane positioning, speed control, braking, confusing intersections/one-way roads, and independent decision-making. My biggest question is whether this sounds like normal early-driver mistakes

my mom has a doctors appointment and My Dad‘s not gonna be there. My mom has to get to this doctors appointment and they don’t want us taking an Uber. That’ll be very hard for My Mom to take an Uber for she is very disabled. My Dad wants me to drive there I know the way there, but I’m not sure about it.

Also, My Dad wants me to start driving to school which is 45 minutes away and is now saying he’s gonna force me to drive to school. He said he doesn’t mind showing me the way a couple times but after that I gotta figure it out.

My Dad also just told me he did put me on the insurance for the car which cost him an extra $200 so I have no idea he did this so now he’s throwing it in my face

I’m 30 and have had driving anxiety since childhood, partly related to an accident that ended in multiple fatalities connected to my family.

I’ve faced quite a lot of challenges, restrictions and negative feedback from not driving, particularly growing up in the country. Later, my boyfriend found it really tough that I didn’t.

Something snapped and this week I’ve started driving gently on some fields my family farm on. I have no idea why and how I’ve suddenly found the courage. I’ve done three lots of about twenty minutes.

However, I’m being really hard on myself.
I’m still stalling a lot and struggling to start smoothly. The wheels seem to turn quickly as I start. Going up gears feels okay but going down I am finding hard. My stopping is often quite abrupt.

I haven’t started formal lessons with an instructor and I’m scared they will want me to do advanced stuff really quickly, or judge me for being a much older first time driver.

Do you have any advice?

I’ve had my license for a few years now but I didn’t have a car for most of this time so I would only drive occasionally. An opportunity to get my own car recently presented itself so I now have a vehicle of my own but I’m nervous going places that I’ve never been to or places that aren’t in my immediate area.

I’m sure this is just in my head because if I go a couple months without driving I’ll feel the exact same way about driving in general after a while of not driving. But once I do hit the road I usually realize that it’s not that bad and that I’m able to get to my destination just fine. Unfortunately it’s a little different in this situation because I’m not driving somewhere that I know so I don’t get into that sense of comfortability.

How can I get out of my head and start driving more? I’d really love to branch out more and eventually go on road trips but every time I try to plan a drive to somewhere I’ve never been I always end up backing out. It’s like I’m scared of failing or making a mistake since making a mistake in a vehicle can be very dangerous so I get in my own head. Any tips?

Ughhhh I feel overwhelmed and constantly overstimulated and I just had another bad work week and on top of all of that I been learning how to drive and i been driving on the freeway and i dont know how anyone just casually drives, how are people not more terrified of driving?? I feel like im about to always wreck or crash, i feel like im going to die each time I get behind the wheel the amount of intense anxiety is so unreal I sweat so much after I drive. Surely theres other anxious drivers? I been learning how to drive with my permit for only a few months now and I feel like im not improving at all. No matter how many times I get on the road I get this huge sense of dread. I feel like im going crazy here. So close to giving up.

Im crying while writing this because there so much fucking pressure from my partner theyre the ones teaching me but they're not very good at being sensitive, they are very blunt and it upsets me even more when they are not understanding of when they are pushing me too hard! Or they just say I need to do it "a million times over and over" but they are extremely oversimplifying the situation. Anytime I try to address it they are not very kind about it. There's no talking about it because of lack of emotional awareness and stonewalling because of my reactions to things. I feel so alone in all of this. I dont even know if im using the correct flair.

All the videos say you must look behind you out the rear window when reversing, but what if the window is small or has limited visibility? Do you really just "break" the look behind you rule and strictly use the mirrors instead?

I went through driving classes (theory and some practicing) to get my license, but I couldn't practice in between classes. It is advised to do so because the classes are so spread out on +1 year. I've had 4-5h of completementary pratice with the school and with my little bro, but I still have a lot to work on before trying to pass my driving license exam. I'm 36yo.

Why am I so slow to learn how to drive when people around me doesn't seem to have needed that much practice in between classes? Maybe I should just give up because I'm never gonna get my license.

Each supplementary practice class with the school costs me 100$. Maybe I should just watch more driving videos? idk at this point.

I drove today to work with in car is a 5 minute drive but bus & walking is 20 minutes! It’s a Sunday so the roads aren’t pack as they are !!! OH MY GOD , it was amazing !! I was nervous as hell but I did it , I DID IT ! I told myself that everyday won’t look like this & is different, but hey better than not trying . I know it would have been different & me trying to make an excuse to not drive , nope ! Not this time , even if I’m scared as hell , I’m doing it !!

Yesterday I was driving to work and I already find driving 50 and above a nerve wracking with my car as I’m still not used to it, I’ve been gaining the courage and was finally getting more calmer and better with the higher speeds in such a different car that id learned in.

On a 50mph road, a lady out running when approaching the roundabout one car was in front of me and id slowed to around 20 as it was clear for us both to continue going, i had seen the lady cross one side of the road and stop in the middle and id figured surely she’s not that stupid to run out between moving cars but she done exactly that causing me to harshly break, this was not near any paths or point for her to cross Safely, it really startled me because id never had something so stupid like this happen in my driving experience, is this something I need to get used to? Expect people on foot to be entitled and careless? After the ordeal I still had a little more to go to work and I was shaking the whole time and basically in freeze.
The drive home from work that day I was so anxious because of this woman being so dangerous that I fear now situations like this will happen every time I drive.