<p>I was pretty sure in every state you needed to drive with a professional teacher if you’re under 18. </p>
<p>I don’t get what’s so hard about it either. I’ve been driving since I was 10 and on my own since 13. I never had any issue starting to drive. I guess people just get worked up over nothing.</p>
<p>Driving in easy, just go on a highway and go about 120 and then 60 will feel like your going slow.</p>
<p>My friends dad has a Audi R8 and his dad let him take it for the day and we were going 90 on a back road and there is this 1/4 mile straight and we tried to do a 6 car pass and a deer ran out just as we got the front of the first car and he slammed on breaks and kept driving it was insane.</p>
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<p>What if everyone else is moving at 5 mph? You’d probably hit someone.</p>
<p>^Exactly!! :O</p>
<p>If your going 5 on a highway you deserve to get hit. :)</p>
<p>No one deserves to get hit!!! Even if they’re goin’ 5 on a highway! Just because someone is having a bad mornin’ or sumthin’ doesn’t mean their life should be taken away, because someone decided to go 120… :O</p>
<p>No one drives 5mph on the highway unless you are in Los Angeles where going 5mph is impossible. Right?</p>
<p>If so, just zig in and out of traffic. I have grown rather fond of switching lanes to pass people. L0L. It’s easy when you get use to it. =)</p>
<p>If they are going five miles per hour there is probably traffic.</p>
<p>Hahahaha! 
My parents used to do that back when I lived in LA!!</p>
<p>If there’s one thing I hate, it’s someone who doesn’t keep up with the flow of traffic. I don’t care if we’re already going 15 over the limit, stick on that guy’s bumper or yield out. Multi-lane passing is also an option, but is technically against the law and doesn’t get you far (unless you’re trying to beat stop lights).</p>
<p>You should come to Jersey and drive on our highways. We’ve semi-mastered the art of left lane high-speed bumper-to-bumper driving, which is both exhilarating and scary as hell. While following in a convoy of my friends’ cars, someone stopped short which caused a chain reaction, which required me to swerve out of left lane. I lost control of steering for a bit and screeched in and out of the middle and right lanes before coming to a stop. Luckily, there were no cars behind me or in my path, and I regained control after about a second and a half (which felt like a ridiculously long time). </p>
<p>Pedals are different for all car manufacturers. For example, the brakes on Hondas generally have less play than those on Toyotas.</p>
<p>^ Ha, nothing beats Michigan driving. Just ask people from Ohio who are scared to drive in Michigan.</p>
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<p>Well sometimes people go slower than that…</p>
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<p>Or you live in LA ;)</p>
<p>Driving really isn’t that hard. I hated driving in Seattle because I learned down here in LA, so I was used to everyone driving crazily.</p>
<p>@OP: I totally understand you! I was scared to death when I first started driving; I didn’t even get my license until last summer, and I am seventeen…</p>
<p>The first time I had ever driven on a road with other cars was one night when I was coming home from Nashville with my dad and twin sister. My dad was like, okay, you’re driving, Emily. It was right after seeing a full seated show, Jesus Christ Superstar. I had to deal with really experienced drivers and traffic and a HUGE city that I was completely unfamiliar with. Then I had to merge onto the highway for the first time and drive over 100 miles home, in the dark.</p>
<p>Everything seemed kind of bland compared to that. 
You’ll get it, I promise!</p>
<p>To hell with D.C. driving. Every turn is one way. If you miss your turn, have fun spending the next 30 min taking a big loop around the city just to get back to the turn you wanted to take. If you miss it a second time…geez I pity you.</p>
<p>Would you happen to be Asian… and Female? XD</p>
<p>But TBH, you’ll get used to it pretty quick. Learn the basics and feel comfortable driving around neighborhoods/35-45mph roads, then take a drivers ed class.</p>
<p>AHHH SOMEONE ELSE!!! I thought I was the only one. It’s gotten better with practice, but
I’m still pretty horrible. So I was in the Drive-thru with my dad at Wendy’s and I was ordering and didn’t notice that he put the car into Park. I finished ordering, then tried to drive, but it didn’t work (obviously) and I panicked, put it into reverse accidentally, and proceeded to almost back up into the car behind me. Stupidity at its finest.</p>
<p>But yeah, 60 is like soooooo slow on the highway… I feel like a grandma when I go so slow.</p>
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<p>This is so true. A few years ago my family went to DC for the first time. We had this big, scheduled day set out, but we missed so many exists and wasted so much time that we just went to the mall (the shopping one) instead.</p>
<p>Get a professional first. Then listen to some music quietly while you drive. It really cuts the tension in the car if your parents are freaking out. That’s what I did and it really helped, I mean I got slapped by my dad the first time I pulled out of a parking lot for going to quickly in reverse.</p>
<p>It gets easier. And there’s so much less pressure if you can practice in a crappy car–ever since we bought my gma’s old station wagon, I haven’t hit a thing. When I was driving my family’s new Jeep, it was another story.</p>