Would you teach somebody to drive?

I would not try teaching anyone now, these days I barely like driving myself.

When I was in college I taught a classmate from Lebanon how to drive. He did very well and it was easy to teach him. I was young and fearless back then.

Then many years later I taught my daughter to drive, but I was older and more cowardly, and things like a heavy cloudburst on our first highway driving attempt, and her suddenly forgetting which side of the road to turn into when we were doing a lesson in town, that stuff just stressed me too much.

She seems to drive awesomely now, but I don't think I can take any credit for it.
 

Back in the mid 1960's when we lived in rural PA. I taught each of my sons to drive. Learning on stick transmission. A friend of my wife wanted me to teach her daughter how to drive. She was quick learner even on stick. The most difficult for her to master was when I had her stop midway up a hill. Foot on the brake, depress clutch, shift to low, foot off the brake release clutch, give it gas. All without drifting backwards. She got it right after several tries. She passed her test on the 1st. try
 
My father wouldn't teach me because he thought I was too much of a day dreamer to drive.

A girl friend taught me when I was thirty so if someone asked me I would teach them because it would be paying it forward.
 
Never. I was happy to get a driver's license to begin with.
That was Hawaii back then. Nowadays one has to take to take several driver education courses, drive 50 hours
With a licensed driver in the daylight and six hours at night. And get an affidavit for the log. I paid a drivers school for the lessons. My instructor was way too jumpy. He yelled "when I say STOP! You must STOP! Naturally l stopped. Just not where he intended. I hope he decided on a new occupation
 
As a man, the answer is YES. But judging from the past, I think I'm alone in that. My wife most certainly would say NO. :D
 
No, by the time my kids were old enough to drive there were driver's ed classes at school, so I did not have to do that.
 
Um, no, I don't think so. I don't need that kind of stress.
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Would I , now, teach someone to drive? Depends on who. If it was somebody like me- ain't no way. When I was learning, the instructor was always having me pull over to "talk". But if it's someone with a bit of confidence, sure, I'd teach them.
 
I had my daughter steering a Ford 9N tractor at age nine. Her mother and I had divorced when she was five, so couldn't teach her to drive a car, because when she was in her mid-teens she lived with her mother in a city quite distant from where I live. My daughter has told me she suspects her early tractor driving imparted the confidence to become a good car driver.

But I did reach my second (and current) wife to drive. That was in a manual "stick-shift" seven-year-old Volvo.
 

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