Anyone else here like to drive?

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Oh dear.....well, at least you finally got your permit and license. It is important for my son to learn to drive if he expects to go to college or anything.

It is very congested here. In fact, seeing so many accidents around here might have scared him off regarding driving.

Driving is great

I like practicing and getting better at stuff, and driving is the type of thing where there's always room for improvement (especially if you ride a motorcycle). And tons of fun of course.

On the other hand, it's sort of a bummer that so many other people drive around like they don't care about themselves or those around them.

I like to drive,as long as there is very little traffic.I find it very soothing,the steady movement,enclosed environment,and quiet rush of road noise is almost like "stimming".Traffic ruins it.

I had a bad expereince learning to drive.

I was taken to a Head Trauma Center by TRC (Texas rehabilitation center) in order to be tested to see what a knew about driving. I had passed the written test, but had little driving expereince.

My dad took the counselor's bad advice and acted like I was too stupid to learn to drive and didn't allow any of my boyfriends to teach me to drive, besides most guys just wanted to make out with me instead of teaching me how to drive. these guys didn't have Learning Disabilities. My dad wouldn't teach me because I made too many mistakes learning to drive, forgetting whatever I was taught my mom.

I was put on the dallas Freeway and expected to go aorund the block in rush hour lunchtime traffic. I stopped on the highway in order to change lanes and didn't act cautious (the teacher's words). He also told me he didn't have the qualifications to commit on someone being diagnosed with a brain disorder, so he couldn't give me his opinion on what was wrong with me. he also acted impatient whenever I scrwed up.

He was ready to retire by the time I was finished going around the block. he said that I would have to commute from Longview to Dallas every day in order to learn to drive.

This was when I was twenty-two and I am now thirty-seven with no driver's license.

I'd like to claim to be one of the local WP boyracers so to speak...

I drive in any mood, sometimes up to 400km in a day just driving around aimlessly. Costs a fortune, my car is guzzly and pretty quick, and well...the statements 'drive like you stole it' and 'drive like you hate it' both apply.

Love my winding mountain passes. Love track days and grasskhanas. Love quartermile days and hillclimbs. My car is my life. Lol.

My boyfriend and I spend a huge amount of our time rarking it up since...well, he has one of the same *points at avatar* We're both competitive drivers and are both destined for racing in the near-ish future

First ya gotta catch meeeee

Soon it'll be trying to catch the fastest NA Impreza in NZ with any luck Got 14 second non-STi?

Driving is my stress relief. I unwind myself by unwinding a twisty road. I LOVE driving in the mountains...

But seriously... I love a good drive. And I too am a manual transmission purist. I was dead set on getting a little sports car recently, but I can't afford a Solstice, decided even a used MR2 Spyder was out of my price range, discovered I don't fit well in a Miata, and I needed something unquestionably reliable (rules out older stuff, even tho I'm handy I don't want to have to tinker with my main transportation) so I gave up for now and got myself something I could afford to drive all over the place - a single-cam Saturn that goes 40 miles per gallon.

Not long after I got it, a kid pulled out in front of me too close for me to miss. OMG DAMAGE CONTROL BRAKE TRY TO GO AROUND crunch.

Now I'm in automatic-transmission hell ('06 cobalt rental, not a bad car really) until my Saturn comes out of the body shop.

Maybe one of these days I'll get one of these:
http://www.stalkerv6.com/
I have a wicked mean idea for a motor build...

x____x mang. I bloody hate autos. Feel sorry for ya. One of the few girls that will only ever drive something with a real clutch pedal here

I've had a few bumps and prangs too, but the 'preza doesn't want to show any signs of it. It's been reversed into and towbar-pranged several times by the tards that park around work too...nothing but paint chips. Part of the reason I now have STi brakes too I guess...idiots around require one to have a good stopping reaction and brakes to match. (mmmm, face-against-steering-wheel material)

I hate the high gas prices because I love to go out and just drive around on the empty interstate at 2 in the morning. It's almost a ritual. I'm not sure it's entirely aspie though, my roommate does the same thing! I have to be careful about cops though, I like driving fast and the cops in Texas are very abusive late at night. I've never actually gotten a ticket before though although I have been pulled over for no reason while driving at night.