Your aspiness behind the wheel?

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For those who do drive:

What's your driving like?

Mine's fine but I miss turns an awful lot, especially when new freeways and bridges are built and the way home changes. It makes me very embarrassed when I'm driving someone!

Mines fine, generally. I just hate driving at night without streetlights - I won't do it. I don't have the spacial awareness to be safe so I make other people do it, hahaha.

The driving is fine, I even like it. While driving I can set my mind on other things and not having to behave nice to others
(of course I drive responsibly and not cutting other people off)

But having car navigation is a blessing. In the country getting lost is fine, but in the city it can be hell.

I have Sat Nav too, I only made 3 mastakes on my test, that was driving too close keeping my speed up when going on a motorway, think americans call them freeways, & instructor missed me checking mirrors so he gave me a mark on that for not checking both mirrors, & 1 mistake in sticking the gear into first instead of 3rd...

But the instruction car was totaly different to my jeeps gear box more closer together...

It has gotten worse over the years. When I was in my 20s, I would be able to drive for miles in any weather, now, it is hard. I think it might be due to some accident's I had, and being in a little car, driving in bad weather is horrible. Even in the summer, it is not like it used to be. I don't know if it is my aspie or age.

i have never driven, never will for multiple reasons.

1. progressive physically disabling condition (not good enough arm function anymore to use a steering wheel, im lucky i will be able to use a joystick for my powerchair... though id prefer a head array )

2. seizure while your driving = death, and i have seizures

3. very very bad perceptual processing, i cannot manage anything with a turning radius, hence my powerchair is gonna be center wheel drive, turn 360 degrees on the spot your sitting on...

I never learned how, I just always knew that driving wasnt a good idea. I am way to distractable and get overwhelmed too easily for it to be safe.

I think I could learn how, but I dont think I would ever be comfortable enough to put it into practice. I have friends who drive, and they take me where I need to go or I walk.

I screw up my lefts and rights and always apply too much pressure when pressing the break/accelerating

My driving is great, fortunately!

I've read that many people on the spectrum have better peripheral than direct sight, and I think that is where I also excel. So, I can see/sense the movement of traffic around me very well.

I'm quick to calculate moves, too - freeways are like a giant game of Frogger for me.

my peripheral vision sucks... i dont see much with my right eye, like 80% left 20% right...

i do much better if its directly in front of me...

im pretty slow for calculating moves...

I drive fine but with some errors. How embarrassing.

I'm afraid to drive.

I'm a pretty good driver too, but I think most of that comes from driving the same car since I started 10 years ago. It's a 95 Neon, typical small car and it took awhile for me to get used to it, but once I did it's almost like the car became an extension of myself. I even found the ideal placement for the mirrors so that I don't actually have to turn my head much to see what's going on around me, with the exception of my driver side mirror, it's aimed slightly down so headlights won't affect me.

I don't necessarily like to drive, but I'm good at it.

Agreed! That is exactly how my car feels to me. With that said, driving a different car does change my comfort zone, but still not a major problem.

I rarely use my side mirrors - the quick peripheral shoulder glances is how I drive best.

I've been driving for 16 years and I still haven't mastered parallel parking. I also have a terrible sense of direction, and get lost very easily. Once I memorize where my destination is in relation to familiar landmarks, then I can get there just fine, but going somewhere for the first time at night when I can't see my landmarks well is generally a disaster. I've been in several minor accidents, only about half of them being my fault, and one serious accident (other driver's fault) that put me in the hospital for a week. After that accident, it was about 6 months before I got up the nerve to drive again, and I only did so by making it a habit to say a prayer for safety every single time I get in the car. The accident was around 12 years ago, but to this day, I still can't go anywhere in a car without saying my safety prayer.

I drive 400 miles a week to and from work including various other things during the weekend. I need to go the same route to where I go all the time or I am compleltly lost. Even with maps, and I think I read maps well, just relating them to the world around me sucks.

I will invest in a better GPS, I have a hand held unit, but its slow and a few years old, very obsolete, I want like Tom Tom or something whenever I need to go somewhere different or cant take my normal route for whatever reason.