I'm curious, since I know a lot of us have issues with driving...

[elanivalae]

...How do you all get around most of the time?

Poll TransportationIf you drive, did it take you a long time to learn? Are you a pretty safe driver

Comments

[efleck999]

I ride a bike, but only because my car isn't running.

I don't mind driving... in fact I love it.
But that's because I'm also a road geek,
and like going to new places I haven't
been before...

[made_of_paradox]

Do you look at maps and see alternate routes to get to different places and then just try them out, and end up being one of the least-screwed people if there's a massive accident that they're routing people around?

[kethar]

That describes what I do, at least when my wife isn't in the car. She is not amused when I take twice as long to get somewhere as it *should* have taken. I also take random roads when I don't have a map. My mind's a map, so driving in plots it in my head.

-ken-

[made_of_paradox]

I've discovered it's better not to have anyone in the car that will argue with me when I'm trying a new route for the first time. :) My husband will sometimes argue with me. My mother-in-law might or might not. Most of the other adults I drive places don't really care. (One of them likens it to teleportation that just takes awhile if she doesn't know the route. In fact, the time I surprised her by taking her through the middle of nowhere, or so it seemed to her, to "magically" appear at a road she knew, she refused to accept any explanation I gave until I said, "Oh, I teleported."

My blind friend has a GPS device and can tell where we are if he's using it. That can be fun!

[trenchcoatedson]

I have no idea why autistics are so afraid of driving, to be honest! I was only afraid because when I was little I was almost hit by a car and could have been killed. I found driving it's like... all rules. It's really systematic and I love it. Sometimes people do crazy things, but that's because they're idiots. There's no social conducts, no subtley in driving, you stick to the rules. I think it's great

[trenchcoatedson]

*subtlety.

[trenchcoatedson]

The only real, real big thing for me and driving though is that I can hardly find A CAR I can see over the steering wheel. I'm 4'9" tall. And I am not growing.

And the only other panicky thing I can ever think of after I got over my first anxiety of driving, was driving on the interstate for the first time. I've been on it several times, now, so it's no big deal... but at first it's a little duanting because you'll be going 70-75, but people around you will be going.. 80-85.

[kethar]

One of my sister's friends mother was only an inch or two taller than you and drove a Suburban. I could never see her face when she drove.

-ken-

[willow_kat]

I took a LOT of lessons to learn how to drive, but it makes me entirely too nervous and I don't like it at all. Not to mention that when I was tested by the driving school, I got so panicky that I couldn't remember basic driving rules.

So, I don't drive.

[debin_kun]

I drive but I'm very wary of it. It takes a lot of mental preparation to go places.

I absolutely hate driving in the city because the traffic patterns change so quickly and I'm paranoid that someone else will do something stupid. That or I'll somehow do something stupid, even though I know better.

I am an extremely safe driver and it annoys the people around me. I probably take more time than necessary to decide whether or not to cross intersections.

[sf_aspie]

Although I marked "I drive, and it doesn't bother me" I should clarify that this is primarily true if I am driving in familiar territory. If I and driving in a location unknown to me I'm a wreck. There's simply too much information coming at me to safely process it while navigating. I stick to neighborhoods/freeways that I know and almost never rent a car if I am visiting another city.