Anyone else not bothered about learning to drive?

Most people I've come across who didn't learn before they were 25 have regretted it later. While you live in a busy city like London, it doesn't always seem worth it at the time, but you may not always live in a busy city.

Its very common for people who have left it till later in life to take a lot longer to learn and to spend an awful lot more money on lessons, simply because when you're younger you soak up information a lot faster than you do when you're older.

Driving is fun. There's nothing fun about public transport, or at least I prefer to sit in a warm car, on my own, going where I want to go, when I want to go there, rather than have to sit on a windy railway station, getting into an overcrowded train and go where it wants to go, and then inevitably leaving myself with a 20 minute walk when I get off anyway. Yes it's expensive, but it's so worth it. I wouldn't enjoy my life anywhere near as much as if I relied on public transport.

I could walk outside and drive up to Scotland right now if I wanted to. Don't have to plan a thing.

I started driving last year and then whilst with my instructor, I crashed the car into a tree and so was suspended and had to fork out a wad of money. Nae amused!

I haven't started learning yet, mainly cos I can't afford to, but even if I could, I'm not sure whether I would or not...
A lot of my friends have crashed, and even though there is the factor of the huge sense of freedom, I'd spend the first 6 months of owning my own car constantly making sure that it hadn't been nicked (as if I'd ever get a car nice enough to be nicked anyway )
I think the boundaries of public transport might be a good thing for me at the moment lol

LOL. Captain92, you're not the only person in that situation The reason people crash is usually down to their attitude toward driving. You don't strike me as someone who would be reckless.

But yeah, if you live in greater London there is a high chance of car crime. A friend of mine has had his car broken into twice in the last few months... just round the corner from his house.

I think that's one of the main problems of learning to drive when you're younger. At this age people are bound to be excited about driving for the first time, then after they've passed they drive recklessly. One of my friends apparently crashed the other week, simply because he wanted to "beat another friend out of the car park". I don't know if it was for bragging rights or to show off, but in an effort to look better than everyone else he's actually made a complete fool out of himself, and now has to fork out a fair bit of money. Too many people our age are like that unfortunately, another reason why insurance costs so much. I think if you learn to drive when you're older i.e. post-university age, you're much more likely to drive sensibly and not feel the need to show off.

Every single one of my friends seems to have either passed their driving test or are learning to drive and I feel like I'm the only person who's not bothering. My 17th birthday was almost a year ago, and when I finally got my provisional and started driving with my dad at Easter it just didn't feel like all that everyone was making it out to be. I just don't feel like I want or need to learn to drive. I can get buses or lifts to whereever I need to go, it costs lots of money every month which I simply wouldn't want to spend, and at Uni I wouldn't be able to afford a car anyway. People who've learnt to drive can brag on about having the freedom to go whereever they want whenever they want, but I actually feel that I'm better off not wasting my time learning to drive. Please tell me there's more than just a few people who feel this way, I can't think of one person who I've spoken to at school who isn't learning to drive!

Agreed. I think being a little more mature can make a big difference when it comes to things like driving. A friend of mine recently look 3 friends out in his car about 6 hours after passing his test and hit a lamp-post, then rolled the car, all because he took his eyes off the road when something fell on the floor from his dashboard and he got distracted.
If he'd been driving for a long time, or had thought a little bit more, he'd have known not to instinctively look down at the floor, and that eyes on the road was the most important thing. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt, but it's put the frighteners on him!