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I'm learning to drive and find it easier to learn at night because less people are on the roads. I'm less nervous.
I would also like knowing how it was when you were learning to drive. Did you find it difficult? Because I do.
I too preferred learning how to drive at night. I liked that there was less traffic and it helped you get used to driving in the dark.
Whatever works best for you is pretty normal. Definitely get some practice during the day though once you are more comfortable and at ease. I'm 27 and still terrified of driving a stick. I know how to but I am not comfortable enough with it to be out on the roads.
I learned how to drive on a big 4x4. It's easier on a big car.. but when I went to the test course I drove a small Hyundai and I passed so easily.
But yeah, I remember the first time I drove on a big busy road, it was brutal. I kept releasing the clutch too slowly and stepping on the accelerator too quickly. So it made that wwwgghoo rev sound between gearshifts.
You get better very quickly, I promise. Just keep at it.
I learned in a big old car. The logic was to learn with a difficult car, then you can drive anything. I remember the driving instructor pointed out the ridges on the bottom of the steering wheel were bigger. Nervous drivers wore them out on top.
I'd been driving unlicensed for a number of years before I got my first license. The ranch I lived on in middle school had a 2 mile long driveway, so it was practical to drive it in inclement weather. That soon became, "take the car and run to the store for me would you please", at 11 or 12. But it was super rural and even had a cop seen me, I doubt he would have cared.
By the time I was 16, I was living on my own and I had to borrow a car from a lady friend to take the test (remember, there were no compact cars in those days; they were all huge, powerful, Detroit iron). It was the first time I'd driven in a year or so, and there was certainly much more traffic than around the ranch, but I got lucky and breezed right through it.
I usually use a mall parking lot, after they close, to teach initially, then move out onto the roads as the student's comfort level increases.
I found the on-the-road part of driver's ed somewhat harrowing. And I didn't pass my road exam for a driver's license on my first try.
Then for several years after I got my license I rarely drove because it was easier and cheaper to take the bus.
What was really difficult was re-learning how to drive once I finally got my first car. That involved driving on some fairly deserted county roads, though mostly in the daytime. Soon it became second nature to me, and today I drive without thinking twice about it, and I've never had a moving violation. So one does eventually get through that learning stage. You'll get there.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm more positive after reading your comment. People who drive keep telling that it's easy. I guess it will get easier with time and practice. I know it will become easier but I just wanted to hear other people telling me how they managed. It is relieving somehow. ☺
My anxiety was too bad at the time to do the driving with an instructor stuff so I waited til I was 17 and a half and just did the written. Driving came easy to me.
Lucky you! I'm learning in a 4x4 and some people have told me that it's easier in smaller cars but that's what we have and I can't really afford driving lessons with an instructor.
I think it's good to learn in a bigger vehicle. I had a car at first but since then I've mostly had trucks. Then when I do sit in a car I feel like my ass is scraping on the road haha.
You'll get the hang of it. It's better to do it the way you are doing it then to get on a packed road. A nervous driver is a dangerous driver.