Bad driving instructors

Which lane which lane WHICH LANE?" personality .

My driving instructor was amazing.

However, the other day I was following a driving instructor + learner home for 12 miles, they were speeding the whole way.....
I wasn't impressed by that. Yeah ok loads of people speed, but a driving instructor actually allowing the pupil to speed?!

That is ridiculous, my instructor gets really picky even if I am over the limit for like 2 seconds and by about 2 mph and that's the way it should be I think

Oh, and he also used to let me drive 50mph in 30mph roads lol, and he used to hate cylists, so used to let me race by em fast whilst overtaking, was so much fun. Best lesson i had with him was when we stopped after traffic lights on way home, had music and shades on. A mercedes CL63 AMG pulls up on the side at the lights, i start revving at the guy lol. Instructor was just laughing and laughing, when the lights hit green, i wheelspinned the car LOL and started racing him, i was beating him for about 5 seconds, then he zooomed past me, felt a bit shameful at that moment lol :/

So much fun i had with him, he's a legend!

Well I've had 3 hours of driving lessons so far and my experience with this instructor has been awful. He got ridiculously impatient and exasperated throughout my lessons, even when I stalled on my first lesson (never been behind the wheel before ever) and laughed in a very sarcastically if I did stuff wrong, grabbed the wheel un-necessarily when I had control over the steering and there was no need. He'd be like "Ok ease off the clutch" and so I would and then he'd be like "NO! don't bring the clutch up it needs to go down, more gas..no no no BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE! ...why are you braking?!" all within about 10 seconds! and I had pretty much mastered the creeping thing at a junction and clutch control, he just completely confused me and made me feel useless. The final straw came today when he hit the roof because I slightly bumped the curb after a turn because I was avoiding a cyclist who shot out of nowhere "NO NO NO you're being over-cautious, missing the curb is you priority!" and then made me get out and drove me home 10 minutes early!! I could understand if I was steering all over the place and I wasn't making progress, but it was like he was trying to confuse me to hinder progress. Never got over 15mph or out of 2nd gear after 3 hours, let alone a main road or reverse :/ ...got all nicey-nicey when I was about to pay up though!

Needless to say I told him I didn't wish to book any more lessons with him and put a complaint in. After reading this thread I hope there are some decent instructors out there!

Had an awful driving instructor from the AA, turned up to lessons late constantly, cancelled last minute, took the wheel off me in lessons (although I wasn't close to cars), always overreacted etc.
I took 2 tests and failed them both with him, after my second one I booked the next driving test straight away and also 4 hours of lessons off the website, text him numerous times asking when I could have the lessons, received no reply and he ignored phone calls from me. In the end I had to have a completely new instructor for these 4 hours due to my other one ignoring me, had to completely adjust to a new car and also found out my old one hadn't been teaching me eco-friendly ways, had my driving test and passed straight away after the 4 hours. I can't stress enough, if you are unhappy with your driving instructor, change straight away, best thing I ever did.

When I was about ten my dad tried to teach me to drive in his Discovery... Then he tried to teach me to do racing starts and fool around on a skid pan

Never get your dad to teach you to drive

My first instructor was really impatient with me and often said things like "I'm going to give up on you" when I got turn in the road wrong. Lmao. Needless to say, I stopped my lessons for a while then got another instructor who was AMAZING! Sad thing is, my first instructor was recommended by a family friend.


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