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Good evening, Nairalanders. I'm learning how to drive for the first time. What's your advice?

Be attentive to your instructor and use your brain.

Burdenbearer:
Good evening, Nairalanders. I'm learning how to drive for the first time. What's your advice?

What's the fees like?

yak:
What's the fees like?

30k

Burdenbearer:
30k

Duration?

Driving is overrated.

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yak:
Op has abandoned the thread.
É nor tell us how it ended

I'm sorry for abandoning the thread. I have learnt it. My instructor wan use me cash out but i got to use my head. Driving is not as difficult as i thought but the major challenge in it is the fear. Driving is about using your initiative and believing in yourself.

eepeepook:
Driving is overrated.

It is overrated to you because you can drive, isn't it?

Burdenbearer:
It is overrated to you because you can drive, isn't it?

1. No point to respond because you’ll disappear for two years this time.

2. I can’t. I will learn sometime this week. I tried twice in the past but faced instructors who wanted to cash out from me. God shamed them because I lost interest. This time, I will learn on my own terms.

U can only learn when u have a car to your name

eepeepook:
1. No point to respond because you’ll disappear for two years this time.

2. I can’t. I will learn sometime this week. I tried twice in the past but faced instructors who wanted to cash out from me. God shamed them because I lost interest. This time, I will learn on my own terms.

I can relate with point number 2. I had to stop after 2weeks of training(theory and practical). Aside that, my instructors were very harsh. That was the major reason i stopped. I have learnt the basis from them and Driving game(how to drive game) and online videos helped me too. I would advise that you should download Yarsa Driving game on playstore.

2cribz:
U can only learn when u have a car to your name

Oh my Gosh! I don't have a car neither can i afford one now but intend to get a driving job. What's your advice for me?

I was once like u. I used for pops c200 as far back as 2004 to learn..manual. i used it for 3 days and then i never get car.provlem now arose when my father sent me an errand.i forgot everything becos i wasnt driving always or everyday and it was manual gear,na my elder bro come rescue me..but today i can handle any gear cos i don get my own car and i donbunderstand cars wella. Wait till u get your own car bro.

Burdenbearer:
Oh my Gosh! I don't have a car neither can i afford one now but intend to get a driving job. What's your advice for me?

2cribz:
I was once like u. I used for pops c200 as far back as 2004 to learn..manual. i used it for 3 days and then i never get car.provlem now arose when my father sent me an errand.i forgot everything becos i wasnt driving always or everyday and it was manual gear,na my elder bro come rescue me..but today i can handle any gear cos i don get my own car and i donbunderstand cars wella. Wait till u get your own car bro.

My own car. Chai !

Burdenbearer:
I'm sorry for abandoning the thread. I have learnt it. My instructor wan use me cash out but i got to use my head. Driving is not as difficult as i thought but the major challenge in it is the fear. Driving is about using your initiative and believing in yourself.

Tell me how he wanted to rip you off

Learn road signs and know them well.

yak:
Tell me how he wanted to rip you off

He wanted to extend my learning period so as to make more money from me. I had to learn more from videos on fb and driving game on my phone.

You can learn it well in one day if it's automatic then start driving daily to perfect your driving skills.

One of the most important things many Nigerian drivers do not know is using the turn signal, any driver who uses the turn signal at the point where he's making that turn is a fool and should be banned from driving, turn signal should be on at least two electric poles before the point where the turn is intended, this better informs those at the back, many drivers do not do this.
Another common error is giving safe distance to the vehicle in the front, getting too close is not actual driving, the vehicle in front could suddenly stall due to faults, and there may be a need for sudden braking, if you're too close you'll hit the person at the front.
The last one I'll mention is the impatience of drivers trying to make a turn to change lanes, you want to change lanes and there's a car at that spot also wanting to change lanes, but because you're an impatient goat you decide to occupy the spot meant for whoever wants to change lanes to the current lane you're on from the other side, rather than wait for the car who got to that spot first to move. If anyone reading this post is guilty of any of these wrongdoings, kindly say to yourself, I am not a smart or professional driver, I am just an impatient goat who is a danger on the road.