#learning to drive

[green-binder]

HC since Steve obviously never learned now to drive (this isn’t the HC this is just truth) when he woke up he learned from watching other people drive cause obviously that guy isn’t gonna admit he can’t do this thing everyone else can do so he has everyone under the impression that he’s known how all along and has his license and everything but it’s never really come up that he /has/ to drive cause he can weasel his way out of every situation that doesn’t involve justice. He technically could drive in the same way your average joe could technically play professional ice hockey- almost adequately, but without finesse or practice

Flash forward to when Bucky is back and for one reason or another the team is driving somewhere and obvs Steve gets pushed into the drivers seat (leader of the team and all) and Bucky immediately shoves him into the back all ‘cmon idiot I know for a damn fact you don’t have a license, you’ve never driven a day in your life,’ and ‘nice try, asshole you don’t know the difference between an uncontrolled four way stop and a roundabout. Sit down’

Obvs the team poke fun at Steve for this which Bucky is 100% in support of but then Bucky gets the car on the road and they are all reminded that this is The Winter Soldier who learned to drive in Brooklyn in the forties and perfected his skills in car chases and drive-by’s for seventy years.

[hero-i-am-not]

Peter: So about the car...

Tony: Yeah! How was driving?

Peter: It was um

Tony: Fun? Exciting?

Peter, tearing up: I got honked at

Tony: Who honked at you?

Peter: huh?

Tony: Who. Was. It.

Peter: I dunno...

Tony: NYC is going down on flames tonight

Peter: Wha-

Tony: JARVIS?

JARVIS: Suit ready, Sir.

Tony: Help yourself to some ice cream, kiddo

[studying-with-adult-adhd]

If you live or are travelling somewhere with snow, learn to drive in the winter. Please.

I get people learning to drive or that this is their first snowfall, but jesus christ people, rush hour is not the time to learn to winter drive!

So, for those who may not know, here you go.

1. Clear your car of all snow. This includes the top of your car. To the best of your ability. You want to be able to see out of your back window incase a car is about to slide into you. This also includes scraping your windows clear of ice.

2. You need to break early, softly, and leave about half a car length in between you and the person infront of you. If someone rear ends you, and you rear end the person infront of you, your insurance will also deem you at fault.

3. If you're breaking and you start to slide, you feather your brakes. On. Off. On. Off. DO NOT PULL YOUR EMERGENCY BREAK. DO NOT PUT YOUR CAR INTO PARK WHILE DRIVING. YOU WILL RUIN YOUR TRANSMISSION, OR YOUR BRAKES.

4. All season and all weather tires are two different things. All weather is better than all season. Snow tires are best, but not everyone can afford them.

5. Keep an emergency kit in your car. This should include a small shovel, extra clothing, jumper cables, cat litter (this is for traction), flares, etc. You also want a blanket. At least 2. If you are in the middle of nowhere and you can't drive, you do not run your car with the windows closed. You open a crack.

6.

Also, it'll be -23 with the windchill this afternoon. Kill me.

[graylinesspam]

Rex and Ahsoka

Training / playing / watching movies / cuddling / literally anything I just love them you honor

It might not have seemed like such a pressing issue on the front lines. Ahsoka had already been taught to fly a fighter and how to drive a speeder bike. Both more common means of transportation on the war front. But learning to drive a regular old speeder was still a necessary skill, and a right of passage for someone her age.

She should be getting her license sometime soon. The jedi usually earned theirs a little earlier than the general public did. But there wasn't exactly a plethora of speeders on the front.

So their somewhat extended stay on a real military base. The kind with permanent barracks and a real mess hall and working equipment, much nicer than their usual mobile camps, came with an opportunity that Ahsoka was not about to pass up.

And as usual when it came to matters of training Ahsoka Rex got volunteered by his General. Anakin certainly didn't have the patience to watch Ahsoka be bad at driving without reaching over and trying to take the controls from her. And after the fiasco that was Fives teacher her to drive a speeder bike, a matter that ended in her hitting a downed tree and flying ass over end. Rex was the only one qualified to train her, aperently.

She'd picked out a little transport truck, single cab, passenger seating in the bed. Nothing too hard to hover around the base. Sturdy enough to take a beating and safe enough that she shouldn't be able to tumble out of it.

For the month or so that they're predicted to be here, Ahsoka has been assigned as his driver. Taking him everywhere he needs to go. Runing arrends. Even volunteering to haul men around anywhere they need to go.

It wasn't so bad in the beginning. She'd clutched the wheel too hard and veered into oncoming traffic a couple times but at a slow speed. He'd barely been clutching onto his seat then. She was always a fast learner. Eager too. By the time she'd been able to get from one side of the base to the other without incident she'd started volunteering to take anyone where they needed to go. Running data pads back and forth. Picking the medics up at the end of their shifts. Driving groups to the training ground. Even making supply runs to the warehouses.

There wasn't much else for her to do at the time.

It was around a week in to her volunteer service that she started getting....confident. She wasn't a reckless driver exactly. She stopped at every crosslanes. Kept her eyes on the lanes and other traffic. Never hit anything. Or anyone. She just got comfortable traversing the same roads all the time. She knew them well enough that she knew exactly where to put her speed. Where to swing into a turn and where to coast down a hill.

Getting into the speeder with her now was what he imagined a typical teen driving experience was.

They had a meeting over the comm table in the main building first thing in the morning. Him and most of Torrents leadership. Which really meant Ahsoka's main Vod.

She'd pulled up five minutes early, Swung by the caf machine and whipped up some foamy shaken monstrosity, and sipped at it while they kit up.

They all piled into the back, pulling the canvas divider back so the men could lean into the cab and badger them. No one fought Rex for the front seat. He wishes they would. Give him an excuse to sit in the back.

Fives sat right behind him leaning over the divider to nudge him as Ahsoka started it up. "Should we strap in?" Fives joked, smacking the back of his hand against Rex's back.

Ahsoka cocked her head not bothering to look at him while she hooked her personal data pad into the sound system. The music kicked on with the engine. A syrupy sweet lady singer with too much base in the background for first thing in the morning.

Rex catches the glance jesse throws to the front of the speeder. Looking like he was considering bailing.

"She'll do fine." Echo knocked his leg into Fives' admonishment.

She shifts into gear and eases into the empty lane just fine. The base was quiet at this time. Only a couple vehicles moving in the whole place. She kicks up the speed in the straightway. Still following the posted rules. Tapping her fingers along the wheel to the beat of the music. She sips at her drink with one hand as they get to the hill, slowing to a reasonable speed before she lets the vehicle free drift down the incline. It isn't startling....just slightly blood pressure raising. The way their speed steadily increases. Her eyes remain on the road as she rests her cup back on one thigh, mouthing the lyrics.

The vehicle doesn't jerk. Just decelerates and turns with the curve of the road at the same time. The momentum tugs on them slightly. Makes Rex's head bend to the side just a bit. His hand bracing against the ceiling out of instinct.

She maintains proper speed all the way through the turn, straightens out cleanly and slides her hand over the wheel with too much confidence. Pulling the vehicle into the next turn just as smoothly.

It isn't recklessness. It's just- a lack of caution that sets his hair on end.

She has to tilt her chin up over her shoulder to check her blindspot while making a turn. Too short to see it without craning her neck a little. Alternates sipping her caf and glancing around. Checking her mirrors, her blindspots, and all the intersecting lanes as they coast through. Her foot a little heavy on the gas but never enough for him to correct her. She decelerates when turning, just not enough.

Hardcase starts singing along to whatever song is playing and there's a gentle breeze sweeping through the vehicle that should be so pleasant. Ahsoka belts out the lyrics with Hardcase. A horrible duet. And when Appo complains Ahsoka settles her drink between her thighs so she can turn the volume up with that hand instead.

The music isn't blaring, it's just chafing.

The speeder decelerates again before turning and dropping down another hill and Rex feels his stomach roll.

He's been tossed around worse in gunships. he shouldn't be reacting so harshly to Ahsoka's driving.

He just doesn't trust her.

Ahsoka follows rules to the letter but never to the spirit. And that's all over her driving. Always toeing but never crossing the line. For whatever reason, this time, it bothers him.

He cringes as she throws her head back and sings, her hands nudging the wheel into the subtle curve of the lane. Slowing down as she rounds the front of the building, pulling out of the lane and swinging the vehicle in the opposite direction he expected. She backs into parking spot. letting the men unload right onto the curb.

She throws the speeder into park and Rex has to lean his head against the door for a moment. Letting the knots in his stomach loosen.

They all unload from the vehicle, some looking more relieved than others. Hardcase asks her to send him her playlist and Echo slaps her on the shoulder. "Good driving."

Fives meanwhile is suspiciously quiet, and Jesse looks like he's looking for somewhere to reject his morning caf.

"Yeah, good job." Rex says as he slams the door closed behind him. He will keep the nausea off his face.

He will.

[robotmechagirl]

This has kinda just turned into a blog where I record thoughts and moments that stand out.

Thinking about:

>How this is the longest I’ve ever let my nails grow out, where you can see them just past the fingertips. I’ve always cut them as short as possible, for as long as I can remember. I wasn’t able to at my last job because of how much lead, dirt, paint, etc… would get stuck under them when I tried. Before that I always felt pressured to keep them short.

>How the bulk of learning how to drive was me teaching myself on GTA IV and thinking that it wouldn’t reflect the real world because the video game drivers don’t use their turn signals. In reality that wasn’t so far fetched from the truth and the game had better drivers.

>How my hair is finally just past my shoulders and now officially the longest length it’s ever been. The only time it’s ever been anywhere near as long as this was during my first attempt at transitioning. I’m not used to managing it yet and still exploring ways to style and keep it healthy.

Remembering that I’ve had it longer than what’s typical for boys/men before and all the threats I would get from old men how they were gonna buzz it off. I remember one time while I was at work some old fuck actually snipped off a piece of my hair as a “joke”.

>This morning I felt so happy to wake up next to my lover, watch them get ready for work while I laid in bed for a few more moments, and proceeded to tackle my to do list when they left. Got myself looking pretty for the day, did the dishes from last night’s dinner, folded the clothes that were left over from last night’s laundry, snuggled our cat for a good, solid chunk of time, and fed myself despite not having an appetite. Am happy to have such stability and to be able to maintain it. I get so much joy in the mundane day to day chores.

Anyway��� I’m not used to being able to feel this relaxed; it’s alien to me. My shift at work is gonna start soon so gonna wrap it up here despite the well of thoughts and feelings still running so deeply.

[withluvkay]

Celebrating a small win today but ya'll I'M OFFICIALLY DONE WITH REVIEWING THIS DRIVER'S MANUAL LESSGO ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

yall gotta understand how big of a deal this is cus I been procrastinating since last yearrrr. thing is I already did this whole process once in 2023 but my permit expired before I ever took the road test. ever since then, I been avoiding it because who wants to go through the permit acquiring phase TWICE... but we move. at least it'll be easier this time cus I alrdy know what to expect. WE GON BE DRIVING THIS YEAR!!

[debeee]

ok so this is a crowd funded operation lol please help only if you can

stage 1 eye test £20 ✅️

stage 2 glasses £70-100

stage 3 provisional licence £34 ✅️

stage 4 driving lessons £25-35 per lesson (x30)

stage 5 theory and practical £23&63

stage 6 I drive to your house and give you cake

roughly £1200-1500 total

I found a goal tracker not sure why I can't change it from dollars though lol

Last updated 6/July/2025

[arizonatea-and-nikolatesla]

Tips for new drivers

As someone who has seen so many people not know how to drive- and watched people get in wrecks for doing stupid things

1. Do NOT fuck with semi-trucks

I don’t care how Savvy of a driver you think you are, or if they’re driving like an ass

Do not drive next to them (this is annoying for people trying to pass, and dangerous. You ever see those big chunks of rubber on the side of the road? Yeah that’s because sometimes semi truck tires blow out.)

Do not break check them

Do not ride super close behind them

They are much bigger than your car or truck or van, they have massive blind spots- If you get onto an accident with one YOU are going to be the one injured or dead. Pass them quickly.

2. Use your turning signal

Even if you don’t think any one is close enough to you for it to matter- use it. All it takes is one car to come flying up from nowhere and if you try to get over and they don’t know, they will hit you.

3. Give motorcycles some space

this is the opposite of the semis- I don’t care how much of a dick that guy on a bike is being. Give him space- because if you get into a collision, you could kill them. Even if it’s not your fault- you will feel HORRIBLE about it for the rest of your life. Give them space, do not try and cut them off, do not break check them, etc.

4. Slow DOWN in bad weather

I know people who thought they were safe in their big four wheel drive trucks who then spun out on the ice and smashed into a railing.

If it’s pouring, if it’s icy, if it’s snowing- SLOW DOWN! Put your hazards on if you have to and stay to the right. Hell- pull over if you feel like you need to.

Let people honk their horns at you and flip you off. Getting home safe is more important than anything else. It’s not uncommon for people to go pretty slow in bad weather- just stay out of the passing lane

5. Assume everyone else is the world’s worst driver

You need to be ready for people being horrible drivers. Always. Check to make sure someone isn’t going to run that red light before you go, give that car ahead of you some extra space in case they don’t use their turning signal or suddenly break, do not ride next to other cars in case they swerve.

I do not care if the accident wouldn’t be your fault- you may think

“Oh I’ll let them hit me- their insurance might just pay for me to get a new car!”

You could die. You could get seriously injured. That irresponsible driver might have kids in their car that could get hurt. And yeah- that’s not your fault, but why wouldn’t you want to try and avoid that from happening if you can?

6. Get off your phone

Even if you think you’re the best person in the world at texting and driving- all it takes is one little thing. One kid darting across the road, one car slamming on their breaks, one especially deep puddle, or something in the road- and suddenly you’re driving headfirst into a tree or ditch.

7. Driver to driver communication

Sometimes- people will make gestures. They mean different things in different situations

-flashing your brights or hazards, this could indicate a ‘thank you’ for letting someone get over or merge. Or it could be someone trying to let you know of an animal crossing the road- and or other hazards

-waving at stop signs or intersections etc, this usually means someone is giving you the right away. This also applies to pedestrians at crosswalks. It’s a simple ‘go right ahead’, but if you take too long they might go anyway.

-Horns. Horns don’t always mean ‘Fuck you’, although they might! They might also be someone trying to alert you of an imminent hazard- especially during the day. If you think you’re doing everything right and someone honks at you- take a look around. There might be something they see that you don’t

-revving engines. This could either be them showing off- or if they seem to be looking and trying to talk or gesture to you- especially at a stop light, they might be trying to race you. Do not race people. This is in fact- illegal and dangerous

8. Don’t slow down on the highway to exit UNTIL you enter the exit lane/ramp

This is more of a personal thing than anything- but this was also told to me by both my drivers instructor and the class I took.

If you are getting off the highway- don’t slow down ON the highway. There are people BEHIND YOU, a lot of which will probably have cruise control on. Wait until you enter the Exit lane and then slow down.

Ideally you wait until all four tires are in the lane- if the lane is too short for you to slow down fast enough- at least get over quickly and try not to slow down too far ahead. If you must, make sure you have that turning signal on so people know you might slow down.

[blindbisexualgoose]

girlhood is hysterically crying while you’re learning to drive because your dad is yelling at you from the passenger seat

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子)

Scanned from Josei Seven (女性セブン), June 18, 1975.

[aceofcardsthetwo]

I fucking hate learing how to get my learners license, like the fuck you mean "no you have to do a shoulder and mirror check THAN signal then go when safe, when leaving a curb."

LIKE IM FUCKING SORRY?! SIGNAL, CHECK, TURN, SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY CLEAR OPTION TO ME, AND THE SAFEST GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA.

Fuck you government of Alberta.

[vnillacone]

So I’m currently learning how to drive (I’m late at it, I didn’t get my license when I was in high school) and I’m having a really hard time getting through the book learning/online course you have to do before you can actually get in the driver’s seat of a car. Not because I’m having trouble understanding the subject matter, but because it makes me irrationally angry. I don’t care about driving, I don’t care about cars, and I hate more than anything else in the world that I can’t get anywhere without driving a car. Every time one of the instructors equates driving with having freedom, it makes me feel like I need to either cry or hit something. Cars are the antithesis of freedom. To me, cars represent lack of freedom. The very basic, fundamental freedom of being able to go where I want when I want on my own terms. Every time I try to do my driving lessons I get way too upset to focus on any of it because I’m trapped in my stupid fucking suburb with no fucking sidewalks. And the only way to leave is to be trapped inside a giant metal death machine that can only go wherever the roads go. I feel like I’ve been robbed of my ability to be a pedestrian. And I shouldn’t have to uproot my entire life and move to a walkable city to be able to live my life. Idk it’s just not fair.

[weird-fan-girl0704]

driving with my sister

Me (driving): (Brakes really hard and sister lunges forward in the passenger seat) Sister: Whoa, you just had a blond moment... Me: ... Sister: LEARN TO DRIVE!!

[no-brain-just-good-omens]

i like driving, but by far my favourite thing about it is that when you’re on those fast roads, even if they’re busy, you can literally sing as loud as you want and nobody can do anything about it. what are they gonna do, get out of the car??

you’re going 60mph and belting james marriott and literally nobody can stop you

[cannedpeachess]

I was driving with my mom earlier, and she asked me “How do you feel about lights?” to try and prompt me to turn my headlights on, but my autistic ass took the question too literally so instead of turning on my headlights, I just sorta went “…You mean like…philosophically???”