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A friend of mine has a car, but doesn’t use it because she is just afraid to do it! She understands that it’s a bit strange but she can’t get over it. How to help her? How to dispel fear?

Are you a driver? Was it hard for you to begin driving? Were you afraid of something? What’s a good way to begin driving?

Does she have a driving license? Find a good instructor for her. He will be in car with her and teach how to avoid dangerous situations. So she'll become mo self-confident on the road. Hope it helps.

No she doesn't! That's the problem. She is afraid of everything. She wants to drive her car and has plenty of plans but ... still she is not a driver...  :bn:  ]:->

Now she should sign up to the good driving school. There she will study driving foundations step-by-step, from simple actions to more advanced.

It is not so difficult to drive a car. It is difficult to drive a car good.

Many people think that driving required fast reaction. This is not true. You must not hurry until you feel familiar on road. Don't think about other drivers who press "peep".

It`s very difficult to give any advise in this situation. Yep, driving school isn`t a bad way for it, but unfortunately even you wish to be a good driver it`s impossible in our schools. Our government is trying to change the legislation but we still have too many gaps in law and most of schools offer you low-grade services or only background knowledges (I mean theory, which you can study at home, as I suppose). For training (practice) you won`t have enough time and which situations you`ll meet? Only ordinary things (direct road, traffic lights, breakaway, graded braking).. yeah that`s great (first 2-3 days) but it won`t save your life in real dangerous (critical) situation. Well, in connection with above mentioned I believe that the best way to bacome a good driver is everyday lessons\practice with any personal teacher, for example it maybe friend with solid experience or what would be better any professional driver, but it`s too expensive.

As about me, I started my education when I was 15 with my father. At first I was learing structure of a car, then basic things such as speed-up\acceleration and speed-down\braking. Secondly, I learned traffic laws and in 17 I started driving on the secondary roads (outside the city), though it was illegal, it helpt me very much and when I reached 18 I passed state exam without any problems.

P.S. I didn`t go to any driving school.

I don’t think that to drive it is terrible and hard.  I like to drive a car.

I'm not a driver but it's in my plans to learn driving a car/ But i'm affraid ((( I often ride on a car with my sister who drives a car only one year and sometimes i'm affraid to go with her. :(

ha ha. it's a problem to buy a good car, not to learn to drive.