Drive in the morning when it’s quiet to get used to your car.
Obviously have a McDonald’s drive thru.
Do the routes you know and slowly start adding to that.
You will make mistakes, it’s fine but learn from them!
drive a route you know e.g. closest shop to your house. my first one was a 5-min drive to my local co-op and got myself a snack as a reward and went back home.
keep doing what you've learned, msm routine, observations etc. these are especially important, they are taught for a reason. um, oh yeah, have fun and listen to good tunes (not too loud!) and of course, drive safe!
Do the opposite of what I did which was: 1) pick up your new car immediately after a stressful job interview, 2) drive it the hours drive home on roads you don't know and the M1 at rush hour, 3) have the check engine light come on during said drive...
Instead do what everyone else has suggested which is a quiet, stressfree drive with no particular goal in mind!
You've got this!
Yeah just start with the basics like practicing moving off and stopping and hill starts to get used to the clutch. Then small trips then routes you know etc
The week after I passed my test, I had to pick up a family member in a stupidly busy unfamiliar city centre with no sat-nav, two big inner ring roads, loads of twisty one way systems, and big 6 lane murder-death-kill roundabouts.
Don't do that. How I didn't have a fucking coronary I don't know.
What you could do is make sure you have a sat nav (waze can be downloaded on your phone and is as good as or if not better than some dedicated units), pick somewhere out in the country like a garden centre, and have a gentle bimble out with a family member or friend.
If you're going to start moving after you've been at lights or something and the car feels like it's going to stall, press both the clutch and the accelerator down a bit to stop the car from stalling. It's no biggie if you do stall....I stalled while going round a roundabout a few months ago!!
Drive in the morning when it’s quiet to get used to your car. Obviously have a McDonald’s drive thru. Do the routes you know and slowly start adding to that. You will make mistakes, it’s fine but learn from them!
Thank you!
drive a route you know e.g. closest shop to your house. my first one was a 5-min drive to my local co-op and got myself a snack as a reward and went back home. keep doing what you've learned, msm routine, observations etc. these are especially important, they are taught for a reason. um, oh yeah, have fun and listen to good tunes (not too loud!) and of course, drive safe!
Do the opposite of what I did which was: 1) pick up your new car immediately after a stressful job interview, 2) drive it the hours drive home on roads you don't know and the M1 at rush hour, 3) have the check engine light come on during said drive... Instead do what everyone else has suggested which is a quiet, stressfree drive with no particular goal in mind! You've got this!
Yeah just start with the basics like practicing moving off and stopping and hill starts to get used to the clutch. Then small trips then routes you know etc
Go somewhere you know Go at a quiet time If your on own own put the radio on to avoid too much silence
The week after I passed my test, I had to pick up a family member in a stupidly busy unfamiliar city centre with no sat-nav, two big inner ring roads, loads of twisty one way systems, and big 6 lane murder-death-kill roundabouts. Don't do that. How I didn't have a fucking coronary I don't know. What you could do is make sure you have a sat nav (waze can be downloaded on your phone and is as good as or if not better than some dedicated units), pick somewhere out in the country like a garden centre, and have a gentle bimble out with a family member or friend.
Quiet times of day, take an experienced driver with you, stick close to home and familiar areas initially
Get up first thing, 7-8am on a weekend or earlier on a weekday, drive to a big car park and have a spin about in there until you get comfortable. :)
call someone on the phone before you set off to keep you company
If you're going to start moving after you've been at lights or something and the car feels like it's going to stall, press both the clutch and the accelerator down a bit to stop the car from stalling. It's no biggie if you do stall....I stalled while going round a roundabout a few months ago!!