Tropers that Can't Drive (and Over 16)

For all you tropers that are past the age at which most get their license to drive,but cannot drive a car yet (or at all).

Feel free to post here,and post what is your mode of transportation instead.

I've currently got a permit,so while I can drive under certain rules,it's not entirely legal and I'm not out of the woods at all,so my main mode at the moment is my bicycle.

When it isn't my bike,it's the Rapid Transit.

Feel free to post here away from the eyes of those tropers that take for granted that they have a steal box of their own.

I can't get a license due to... personal issues.

Luckily, I live in an urban area and have a bike. :)

I walk or get a ride from someone else. (It worked better when I was within walking distance of the grocery store, and college).

edited 25th Aug '13 3:24:07 PM by phantom1

I have Dyspraxia - so learning to drive is...not impossible, but more of an uphill battle for me than others. It also means I can't ride a bike, my brain literally cannot do the mental balancing cycling asks for.

I've tried it before in manual (being the standard driving mode here) and I just can't get my brain to manage gears, breaking AND steering. I've had one test lesson in an automatic which felt more promising...

But I'm unsure if it's really worth it where I am right now. This area sucks for public transport, but learning to drive here asks for a lot of money to be plowed into lessons, with a test at the end which seems to be sort of brutal in this area (my brother took it 5 times and failed) - but I feel a certain pressure to do it sooner or later.

Bit annoyed today because we're changing timetables at work, all of them grumbling about how they are too old to work late night hours, or how mothers should get daytime hours, say I want daytimes because of the busses and they are like "learn to drive lol" :/

edited 2nd Sep '13 3:33:07 PM by jennytablina

It's not that I can drive It's more like I don't want to drive. I mean first you have to pay for the vehicle itself then you have to pay for parts,fuel,maintenence, insurance, and because of recent developments in my life. I highly doubt I'll actually get my Drivers licence.

And let's be honest all the stuff up there I mentioned they definitely aren't cheap nowadays.

edited 9th Dec '13 7:14:07 AM by Djanchorhead

I own a car, but I don't have time nor need for acquiring driving license. Mother or stepfather (in exchange for me lending them said car) are driving me around or I'm using public transportation.

edited 9th Dec '13 7:30:35 AM by CaptainKatsura

I don't have a job.

I need a job to pay for car-related stuff.

But I can't find a job that's close.

So I need a car.

But I can't afford it.

I don't have a job.

I'll get a car when I feel like it.

Still in this Coven,almost exited out today,but I didn't notice a Yield sign and therefore didn't do what has to be done at such an intersection.

I wouldn't have messed that up if I had driven around that a few times. I had the rest of the area down.

So to any troper over 16 and still scratching their heads on how to get through something so mind-boggling.

Go through the neighborhood down as many ways as possible and keep your wits together.

I had my wits and that's why I did as I did and not worse.

At the moment, getting around by good old fashioned shoe leather and trains. Have a bike gathering dust in the garage that's probably too small for me.

edited 9th Jan '14 3:50:48 PM by Deadbeatloser22

I am capable of walking and asking people for rides (and we need better buses here, except I'm not good at taking the bus in general, which isn't good because I'm an adult and stuff, and should know how).

Cars scare me, man. I need to start thinking of the car as just another video game...

One where I'm trying not to run over people...

edited 1st Feb '14 11:41:36 AM by RBluefish

Yeah, I belong here.

22 and I still can't drive. It doesn't help that drivers where I live are fucking out of their minds.

@Bluefish Always good to remember but yeah cars kind of scare me too

I'm just not really into driving

I don't want to take driving lessons because I can get easily distracted or my mind drifts away. Especially if I happen to hear a song I like on the radio.

I'll learn to drive eventually. Just not now.

@Quag Oh yeah, that too highway hypnotism they called it (I did pass my Learner's Test I just never went through with it) considering one of the few benefits I find to cars (I get car sick, and not being able to walk about makes me feel trapped) is being able to zone out in them, I find driving less then appealing for that as well.

My plan as well. Especially tricky at this time of year, since the roads are all iced up.

It wasn't so much that as me simply distracting easily, because I tend to think about a lot of creative things constantly. Though that would be a side effect, indeed.

@Quag Ah that makes sense. Yes daydreaming while driving can be quite dangerous (which clearly means driving isn't that great no you need to be able to go places)

The location I'm currently in now is rather difficult for driving, so I'm not going to try it here. It would be tedious to go through the high amounts of traffic, potholes on most of the roads, and twists and turns all over the place. Since I also happen to live on an island, driving around wouldn't be that interesting. The bus system here is decent, so I'll just stick to that.

I turn 27 on the 10th and I only have a permit. The only person who can teach me is barely ever home to do so, and this winter apparently isn't ending until July, so I might not have time...

I just got lazy about it. A psychiatrist told me at age 16 that I might have to get a test at a hospital to see if my Asperger's would hinder my driving any, but every time we called said hospital, they just jacked us around and we got nowhere for three years. And then on top of that, I graduated very young (age 15), so I couldn't just take driver's ed in high school.

Not like I have anywhere to go in Bumfuck, Michigan anyway.

the thing about driving is it lets you leave east bubblefuck and explore. Thats what it was like for me at least.

I managed to cajole my dad into giving me lesson last night. I really need to get the hang of that whole 'braking' thing.