Cars

[bugshaw]

It's time. This time it really, really is time. I presume I can get driving lessons during work time; I need to do the COA on my license.

Any recommendations for driving schools/teachers in Cambridge?

I've had a dozen lessons in 1990 and again in 2000; circumstances (and lack of enthusiasm) stopped me getting as far as a test. I passed the theory test a few years ago but it's expired now. I'm okay pootling on traffic-free roads but poor at judging my space/position. I am vg at turn-in-the-road and vb at reversing. N is happy to put me on her car's insurance and take me to practice manouevring after I've had some lessons.

Comments

[lnr]

Don't forget you can be having lessons before you've got the theory under your belt again. It might actually help to be a bit more in practice in terms of passing the hazard perception bit, which is presumably new since last time? Or maybe not, I did it twice, so it must have been around for at least 4 years now. Hmm, no, it wasn't around the first time I did the theory and that was more like 2001.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'd heard mutterings about instructors wanting you to pass the theory test before you sit in a car, but I guess this hasn't become widespread. I've not done the hazard perception test before!

[lnr]

I suppose it's possible some instructors feel like that. If you're worried ring them and ask!

http://www.bsm.co.uk/learning-to-drive/lessons/taking-lessons/honing-your-skills.htm

This bit of their webpage seems to agree with me though :-)