My son has his learners permit now so my wife and I are his instructors. He has no choice but to learn from his parents because he has to log 120 hours on L plates before going to a probationary license. It would cost a fortune to do that with an instructor.
And yeah its pretty stressful. I started him on a car with a manual transmission. Probably a mistake because he needed to learn driving before shifting and there is more to driving a manual than I had given thought to.
We have had a few drivers lose it at him at intersections. He talks his time and with L plates on that should be fine. There are idiots all over the place unfortunately.
So we have him driving my wife’s Jetta at the moment. After the first ten hours I felt that he was about 60% of the way there. Maybe at 50 I would consider him a fairly safe driver.
