Does anyone in your family never learned how to drive a car?

The other day I was driving my aunt to her house after work and I kept thinking about how I have two aunts that never learned how to drive a car (I didn't mind driving my aunt to her house since it was a one time thing).

For 1 of my aunts (on my mother's side) it makes some sense. She is the oldest and her father (my grandpa on my mother's side) was very conservative so I guess it would make sense to him to frown upon a "lady" driving a car. But my mother, who is the youngest among her brothers and sisters, did learned how to drive. I wonder if she didn't learned before she left to live outside of her parent's home and maybe my father thought her how to drive (don't know if I should ask that lol). Of note is that my mother's mother didn't drive either and was pretty much a "traditional, stay at home person" (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Yet my other aunt (on my father's side) came from a family in which my grandmother knows how drive and I don't feel like my grandpa would have objected to it (relatively less conservative when compared to my other grandpa).

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So anyways, always found that interesting and I'm curious if you ever had that dynamic in your family and how do you handle it?

my sister drives.

I am 28 and I don't have a licence since my job is transit accessible and the area I live in is transit accessible but I am working towards one.

Oh, that's interesting. If you don't mind me asking, for you, was it simply a matter of not being interested?

@Master_Live: i'm just not ready yet.

I've been on my learner's permit since the day I got it when I was 19. (I'm 22 now.)

Why haven't I gotten my license? Because I live right near a train station that allows me to commute easily enough. I've gotten driving lessons before and logged in a decent amount of hours, but driving makes me incredibly anxious. It's never been a major issue me not being able to drive. But that's just me though.

Everyone should know how to drive, it’s kind of a necessary skill nowadays.

I never learn how, my dad did but stopped when I was like 5 (long story). My mother never did as she has a fear of it. So I learned to travel without one.

Seems like every American knows how to drive, so yes, I do. Been driving since I was 16 or whenever you can get a permit in California. We are a commuter culture here.

I hear a lot of New Yorkers don't really bother with it, however.

I have a few friends who either didn't learn how to drive or got a learners but didn't progress past that.

I got a license when I was 16 ( as soon as I was able) and have made a lot of use of it. I can't think of anyone in my extended family that never learned how to drive

My dad and brother drive. I took my license one and a half year ago but haven't driven at all since then. Commuting to work is pretty easy. My mum learned how to drive and got her license at a young age but hasn't driven for decades.

I hate driving and always will to many morons on the road not paying attention I can't wait for self driving cars.

I don't like cars.

Depends on where you live. In many European cities, there are other options, and getting the license might both be expensive and time consuming.

My family lives/lived in a rural area so we all had to learn to drive. No fancy big-city modes of public transportation for us.

My grandmother never learned how to drive a car. She never needed to as she married my grandfather out of high school.

Now she is in her mid-90's. If they make it another few years we might be celebrating their 80th anniversary.

Everyone in my family drives

If you're never going to leave where you live to travel around the world and see places that would work, sure.

@MirkoS77: It might lead to people getting the license later. I think minimum cost for the license in my country is above 2000 $ these days. If you have to pay for it yourself, I can see why people have to wait until they got a stable job after a possible higher education.

$2,000? You're in Sweden or Norway IIRC?

I wasn't aware of the cost, and in that light I'm inclined to agree. Still, I think it's something that always comes in handy no matter where you are.

i have 2 aunts and a grandmother that never learned.

my grandmother i get. she lived in a city for the majority of her life and was fine getting by walking or taking public transportation and having others drive her when needed.

my aunts though, i don't understand. live in suburbs and are dependent on others to drive them.

I drive and so does everyone in my family.

I can't imagine not having a car.

Sure is handy, but expensive. 18 year olds here doesn't have that kind of money, at least not when you factor in other costs associated with finishing high school (look up Russ or Russetiden if you're interested) so it is up to parents to foot the bill.

There are other reasons for taking it later as well. Cars are generally expensive here, and students normally don't have the money to keep one. They will rather spend their money get drunk and eat out. So you quickly go 3-5 years with only driving maybe 10 times in total. Not having a lot of driving experience to begin with, then having some years with barely any driving leads to drivers being both very inexperienced and high chance of forgetting some of the traffic laws before they get behind the wheels on a regular basis again.

That's a key factor for many. If you live somewhere that has reliable and various public transit options, the need to learn to drive is reduced. I'm in FL-US, where driving is a necessity.

Some people that live near good public transportation just prefer not to drive. Saves them money that's for sure. That said my siblings all drive and some of their children. Have some that have no interest in learning though. I actually can't imagine not driving. Car equals freedom.

I run to work everyday to stop global warming. Cars are for evil people.

My new born bro :P

My GF/Baby mama didn't know how to drive nor did she took an interest when I first meet her like 14 years ago and she's older then me. Granted, I teach her how to drive step by step this year, it was slow but she made good progress for days, told her to study the book and just under 3 weeks, she took the driving test and got her drivers license! She was so happy, I was the only person to took the time and teach her. Afterwards, we work out buying her first ever car and she's been enjoying driving everywhere. Even her mother was proud of me for teaching her.

All my family members know how to drive and don't know a single one who doesn't.

Everyone in my family has a drivers license. Me and my oldest cousin (who's a woman for that matter) both even have motorcycle licenses. Whereas my youngest cousin (still older than me and a man) very rarely lays an eye on a car. He only drives if he really has to.

Motorcycling is so awesome, I never initially thought I would love it as much as I do today. Just sitting on that fat bike and sliding a bit in every corner on a gravel road, I loved driving on gravel when I had a car but on a motorcycle everything gets even more intense 😄

When I was a teenager I wasn't interested in learning to drive. I used to tell myself that one day I would live in a nice big city and use public transit, or that I would get an electric vehicle later on when those became a thing one day. But I wasn't interested in it for the longest time. I didn't have friends and didn't really see the point.

I didn't get my license right away. But I felt bad when I was asked to stay late at my job, and there my dad would be, waiting out in his car for up to half an hour after getting out of his workplace to pick me up. I didn't want that to keep happening, so I had getting a car in the back of my head then. But I had to save up for it.

My dad really did the footwork and found a cheap vehicle for me as my first car. I got a really good deal on it, and I'm happy I went with that because the car I had my eye on at the time was twice as expensive and I never could have afforded it since I quit the job I had around that time. I was a pretty awful driver early on, and I had to learn a lot on the fly. My anxiety and ocd didn't always help. I remember pulling forward and turning in front of a bus that had the right of way on two separate occasions. Honking of horns and people hitting the breaks drilled a lot of things into my head fast, and made me realize I didn't understand all of the rules of the road initially.

But within a pretty short amount of time I came to appreciate the newfound freedom that came with owning a car. I didn't have many places to go and didn't spend much time driving around my hometown, but I would go to the closest mall, and just try to go get away from everyone for a bit on drives.

When I took my first long-distance trip in that car, that was kind of the make-or-break moment for me. It was raining pretty hard that day and I came to a stretch of the highway that was closed due to roadwork. I probably had a bit of a panic attack and wasn't sure if I should still go or give up and cancel my plans. But I decided I was tired of the way things were, and I really would have done anything to change my life and take a chance on something new. So I went out of the way a bit and figured out how to get on the route I wanted to be on, and it was a much simpler fix than I'd worried it would be. And after another hour, the rain let up and it was a beautiful day!

It irritates me because I know a lot of people who still haven't gotten their license, or still haven't gotten a vehicle, and they don't seem motivated to really do it. I doubt I could make it at all without a car these days. And now I know public transit, while a good thing to have, is not really all it's cracked up to be. You live your life around bus schedules.