12/02/2023
So true and very apt right now....
Learning to drive takes different people a different length of time to acheive, so it's not only irrelevant, it's also a pointless exercise, saying "cousin Joe passed in 10 or 15 hours".
Whether they did or didn't pass in 10 or 15 hours is totally irrelevant, Joe isn't you.
When we talk about how long it's going to take to learn to drive, what we are really talking about is how much is it going to cost?
Fair question....
Our answer...
Probably less than the first years insurance, definitely less than the cost of a funeral. The lessons won't take as long as it will take people to mourn your loss, or the loss of others if you get killed or kill others in a car, because you haven't had sufficient proffesional coaching and practice to get you up to a safe standard.
So how long will it take you? We don't know, we will do our best to teach you the syllabus as quickly as we can, we will match the speed of teaching to the speed you learn, that's the best we can do!
With regards to "I just want to have a go!", you can, it goes against our advice if we feel you are not ready, but not in one of our cars. Our cars are our livelihoods, we have a responsibility to make sure our other pupils have a car to learn in and do their tests in!
Lastly, we have a duty of care and responsibility to you, other road users and also the examiners!
Gaining an ADI badge is not cheap, it doesn't come without study, cost or commitment or indeed responsibility, so there is our answer, who you want to learn with is your choice, but please don't expect an instructor to cut corners, we trained hard for our badge and we are rather proud of it, what we don't want is a phone call telling us that any of you have been injured or killed!
