How To Drive A Stick Shift

An extreme number of research and data have pointed out that teens are not equipped with safe driving skills. These numbers have lead to countless arguments between teens and adults. All though teens are more interested in their phone then a car they still have a desire to get onto the road. The car offers an immense amount of self conscious and maturity to a teen. This is one of the main points as to why teens are so eager to get out on the road as soon as possible. If and when they do get on the road they look right past the consequences that may occur with driving at such a young age. Without a doubt teenage drivers are very inexperienced when it comes to their first trips on the road because the only prior training they can get is practice

My interest in cars dates back as far as I can remember. Manual cars first began to peak my interest during my late teenage years. My first time driving a manual car is special memory that I cannot seem to forget no matter how hard I try. The very first time I successfully drove stick actually was not the first time I ever tried. I did not do so well my first time. I did not think it was fun and I did not like it. When I was sixteen, my Dad took me out to drive my first car with manual transmission. I did so badly that I actually managed to catch the clutch on fire before I could get the car moving! Thankfully there was little to no damage to the car after I had my time with it. This was a traumatic experience to me for quite awhile, before it

I sat there nervous , thinking this is it I have to do this ,It's now or never . I can feel the sweat coming down my forehead ,my hands also sweaty as I gripped the steering wheel.My shot at getting my drivers license was finally here . I can feel the driving instructor watch my every move . But let's go back a couple of weeks to the one day I decided I was ready to get behind the wheel . My 15th birthday , in my culture when a girl turns 15 they are coming into adult hood and there is a big celebration called Quinceañera. I was not to happy with the celebration all I really wished for was to have my own car . My parents on the other and it being tradition they didn't really ask for my opinion . After all what teenage girl didn't want to have

Everyone has felt that feeling where they cannot wait to learn how to drive and to get behind the wheel. Little do they know, driving causes a number of deaths every year. Teen drivers are involved in more car-related accidents than any other drivers. The minimum driving age should be raised from 16 to 18 because 16 year olds are more accident prone, 18 year olds are more experienced, and a 16 year old’s brain is not as developed as it is at 18 years old.

A driver’s license and a set of cars keys are every teenager’s wish at age sixteen and most parents worst nightmare. Most teenagers seem invincible at this age as they back out from the driveway. The parents cringe at the sight of the car leaving the driveway. Mom and Dad pray for the safe return of their child, while the teen’s heart races for freedom. Is sixteen a safe age for teenagers to be behind the wheel? Many factors such as distracted driving play a crucial role in the cause of fatal crashes for teenagers, however can increasing the legal driving age from sixteen to eighteen be a life-saver for teens.

teens are overinvolved in crashes because they lack both the judgment that comes with maturity and the skill that comes with experience. The crash rate per mile driven among 16-19 year-olds is 4 times as high as for older drivers. Graduated licensing is designed to delay full licensure while allowing beginners to obtain initial experience under lower-risk conditions. The best systems set 16 as the minimum age to get a learner's permit, and during this period parents certify at least 30-50 hours of supervised driving. Intermediate licensure begins at 16½ or older and lasts until at least 18 years old and includes both a night driving restriction starting at 9 or 10 p.m. and a rule prohibiting teen passengers, or allowing no more than 1 when

I had just got my lisence a few months ago. I had been driving around with an automatic transmission car for the longest time. My dad owned a manual transmission car, also called stick or stick - shift, and I always wanted to learn how to drive it, but he told me I wasn’t ready. My opportunity came a few months later when we were going to buy a new car for my dad. In order to do so, we needed to trade in my car. The only way I was going to be able to drive was if I could drive my dads old stick car. I knew this was going to be my only chance to learn, so needless to say, I took up the offer.

Demonstrate your skills. Following your teen’s stint behind the wheel, change places. You already have the ‘cool’ factor down pat if you’re teaching your child how to shift with a manual transmission. There’s something about “rowing your own” that brings out the fun in driving. But most cars come equipped with automatic transmissions and if you’re lucky can be operated in manual mode with the stick or paddle shifters used to move between the gears. Fun driving and safe driving are not mutually exclusive, so demonstrate your skills. Show how to safely, but confidently make your way down a highway entrance ramp and deftly merge with traffic. If you’re controlling gear shifts, have your teen watch and listen as the engine revs, demonstrating when to upshift as well as when to downshift. Imbue confidence in the young driver and he’ll be a safe

Every teenager loves that moment when we are on the open road, sitting right behind the wheel, joining the millions of adults that drive everyday. That feeling of nervousness and excitement is the sense of freedom and the first major step into adulthood. But then that feeling is quickly ended by dad yelling “speed up they’re going to hit you.” That is the beginning of the driving process.

Since I was a young girl, learning was something necessary to do in order to mature into my own self. It's something us as humans do to evolve from our younger selves. From learning to talk, walk ,and read we learn many things throughout our lifetime to be the person we are today. Learning is the key to life. Learning makes us progress. Riding a bicycle was a learning experience that I might never forget it.

From what I’ve been through if you ever want to learn to drive stick shift I highly recommend you go to a driving school that teaches manual because they wont yell at you or call you names. Also, it can be discouraging and depressing at first because you will stall a lot, that’s when the

I struggled so much when learning to drive, I didn’t think I would ever be able to get my license. Everytime I go out and drive something different would always go wrong. I would get too caught up in the freedom of driving and listening to the blaring music that I would forget something. When I first started I wouldn’t think it would ever be this hard because my parents make it look so easy. When I was fifteen I was learning how to drive, but I kept struggling with a couple different aspects of driving. Eventually after I kept practicing I was able to perfect the art of driving, and come closer to becoming an adult.

     If you had told me when I turned sixteen that I couldn’t get my license until I turned eighteen, I would have thrown a fit. Now that I am older, I realize that I had no business driving an automobile at 16 years old. I was the typical teenage driver. The cool one, who had the “Detroit

Everyone has been through that time in their life when they're in their mid-teens, and start to obtain new privileges and responsibilities like driving for the first time, and or getting a first real job. One might sound dull, and boring, but the other is something every teen cannot wait to experience, but unluckily for me my first driving experience wasn't so great. A couple months back, I was in my auto technical class, and the class, and I were doing our day to day shop work when my instructor came up to me, and said he needed a car moved so we can check it out. He handed me the keys no questions asked most likely because I had neglected to tell him I haven't even gotten my permit yet. So me and my buddy ran to the car with excitement and I hopped into the driver side assuring my friend I knew what I was doing after he’d asked me about three times. I put the vehicle in drive and it started to move at that moment I realized I didn't know to hold the brake down and ended up colliding with the truck in front of us.

Driving fast in a car may be unsafe but the thrill and excitement of high rates of speed gave me a rush I had never felt before. Seeing, feeling and hearing everything go by faster made the whole driving experience so much better. My mouth watered with envy as I approached the drivers' seat every time I went out for a drive. The automobile, as a whole, became a high interest of mine; the styling, the sound and the speed of it. I loved driving and I loved cars and all of this new found love was from the birth of my drivers' license. Such a simple piece of paper opened up such a broad area of learning for me; it was of much amazement to me.