Do you have trouble driving?

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Where I live, the congestion is really bad.
I live in a medieval city were there is not much room for cars. Thats why I drive a scooter.
Traffic is crazy, and when I was around 16 I was too much of a fool to realize.
So I bumpered someone and she made an emergency stop. I basically ended up in front of her car uninjured..
And then just a few weeks ago I made a stupid, stupid mistake. It was raining and I was merging from between tram-rails to the road, but I didn't take the angle sharp enough and one of my wheels slipped and I fell hard on the asfalt and skidded a couple of meters. It still hurts my back sometimes.

Not that I'm a bad driver though, I don't know if its the AS but I see everything. Litterally everything. Which comes in handy here, they say 2 eyes ain't enough in Amsterdam.

I still dislike driving though, the recent experiences made it even more scarier. And with winter falling, along with the slippery leeves,I haven't touched my scooter in weeks. I rely on expensive public transportation now...

Well, old towns are stressful if you want to drive. First of all, you have a problem if your car is big and doesn't have power steering (ha ha). Then, the streets are narrow and a lot of them are only pedestrian, so you can't park. There are streets where you have to find the signposting (hidden), squares without sidewalks, uphills and downhills and big bollards that want to destroy the bodywork of your car because the streets are narrow so the distance between the bollards and your car is practically non existent.

Old towns and cities = Walk + public transport (and a car used by four friends instead of four friends using four cars )

No... I am likely a terror to others on the road...

I get irate (and vocal) when drivers don't follow the laws/rules/courtesies of the road (with the exception of speeding on relatively deserted highways).

I like driving. I got my liscense on my first try. Actually one thing I think I am bad at is when a police officers is directing traffic what do your hand signals even mean but that does not happen everyday.

My sensory processing issues made it hard for me to learn to drive and I used to get in a lot of accidents; then I didn't own a car for five years, after which I bought my first car (that I actually owned). By this time I'd been working for 8 months as an ICM, driving kids around in a fleet car. Having to drive other people's kids around all the time, and having to drive parents fairly often as well, forced me to become a much, much better driver than I ever thought I'd be.

I enjoy driving, it's the other people I can't stand.
My frustration lies from them. My driving isn't perfect but I have gotten better.
I commute to and from work on bike now to save up and move out.

Best Regards,

Jake

I have enough trouble crossing the road, so much so I was hit by a car in my late twenties and suffered a brain injury and fractured pelvis. I'm petrified of driving a car, particularly as I'm hopeless at judging distance (obviously ).

I took a few lessons but i didnt like the power. I found it too easy to run people over and i didnt trust myself not to.

I love driving, mastered it after 5 lessons, have had 3 accidents none were my fault. 1 person crashed into me while parked, another reversed into me while sitting at traffic lights and a motorcycle decided to overtake me on a roundabout as I was travelling off it and side whacked my drivers door. I've been driving for 30 years.

Oh, yeah! I used to have a white-knuckle grip on my car's steering wheel wherever I went -- I'd lose feeling in my hands and have to shake them out when driving because I'd hold the wheel so tightly. I actually got over it. I was advised that over time I'd get less anxious but I didn't...not that much, anyway. What really got me over it was having to drive in the city. I was with my (now ex-) girlfriend and had to drive her to her mother's house in Brooklyn. I had no choice and she was so important to me that I did it despite the fact I felt like I was dying and had to take a double-dose of anti-anxiety meds. She couldn't drive, it was my car, she had no other way to get there, etc. There was no way out, but through -- as they say. I ended up driving her around in NYC a lot. I'd pick her up from work, drive us out in the evening to a restaurant or the like. I even once got into a fender-bender in Queens. Though I felt like I was going to have a heart attack every single time I drove her around, I loved her so I did it anyway. Eventually, when my relationship ended and I went back to a more rural area, it wasn't such a big deal anymore. After being in my own personal hell driving her through the city, the country felt like nothing. Sure, there are still times when I feel anxious when driving, but usually it's in traffic or I'm just anxious about something else and happen to be driving.

Doctors often recommend what's called "exposure therapy" for fears -- experiencing the fear over and over again and facing it to enforce the fact that you won't die from it, that you can get through it. Personally, I'd advocate for what I call "shock therapy" because it wasn't until I shocked my system driving through NYC in rush hour, getting honked at and yelled at and yelling back that I finally realized: hey, I can do this...I can do this and not die from a heart attack. That's because it wasn't until after the NYC driving experience that I got over this fear...before, when just driving regularly, my fear wasn't helped really...it was still a panicky hell for me.

Whatever you do, just know that you can get over this. Sometimes it takes a hard road to get there (no pun intended), but it's possible, so don't give up hope!

That is so funny! I can't say I haven't been tempted...especially when driving in the city...

I'd never hurt a fly, though. People laugh at me when I try to be tough...I've been told I'm the least threatening person on the planet before... I couldn't figure out whether that was a compliment or not. o.O

I gave up driving many years ago. It's just so terrifying to be on the road. I would die from anxiety. I'm relieved to know that I am not the only one.

This is an old thread, but I can't help posting when I see a thread about fear of driving.

I used to be a good driver, now I am awful. Have trouble concentrating on the road, easily
distracted. Hate to drive at night, especially in the rain. Sometimes I use GPS even when
I know where I am going in case I space out and miss my turns.

My panic attacks happen in the car, while driving. I am a good driver.

Part of it was the medications really affected my sigh sight, and I would have trouble focusing. When my potassium bottoms out, it is hard for me think, and it really messes up my driving.

The other part, is growing up, my mother never drove and was deathly afraid of cars. My father did everything to make her
unwind and panic in the car. Yes, he can be a total as*hole, and he thought making my mother hysterical at 90 mphs was a hoot.

The area where I live, everyone drive aggressively on the expressway, going in excess of 90 mphs. Or they just play dodge 'em cars. If the speed limit is 70 mph, I'm going 85, which is fast enough. I'm not booming it up to 90+ to make some tool in an SUV happy.

I had a panic attack driving a few days ago, the first in 5 years. It was dusk, snowing, during rush, and by a mall. Everyone was driving like it was the end of the world. I kept it together because my kid was in the car, and I didn't pull over. I HATE WHEN IT HAPPENS. The physical feelings are so miserable, and then I get angry at my brain for messing with me. It occurred at the tail end of a 3 hour road trip, and I had minimal sleep. I'm not surprised it happened.

I do wish I lived in a city with decent mass transit. I don't mind taking a bus or train.

My problem is not driving can't stand to be driven. Another thing is all the other drivers the stupidity of these people is beyond infuriating.

Same for me, especially in the rain at night (bad),