When did you first learn to drive?

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It is only in the US you can get a friend or parent to teach you. That is very illegal here. You have to pay for a pro drive instructor and as another one from Denmark pointed out earlier, that is expensive. A license here costs at least 10,000 DKK and most likely it will climb to 15,000 DKK with extra lessons or even more. That is about 2,300 USD.

On top of that cars are expensive too and very hard to afford if you don't have a high paying job or save for years. That is why I am doubting getting it in the first place because I am pretty poor and I probably won't be able to afford a car anyway. Luckily my parents are loaded and they got my sister a car, so I am thinking maybe they would buy me one too. Otherwise there is always the option of borrowing other people's cars, but its not as paractical as having your own and in any case it all depends on whether or not I can pass.

I have mirror movements in my hands so everything my right does, the left copies....its not very practical with a steering wheel. Imagine if I go to change the radio while driving and my right hand goes right and then suddenly the left one on the wheel does the same and the whole car swerves to the side.

Um...that really depends of what countries you compare it to. But the short answer is nope. There is always something up with it. They don't run on time, they have a lot of cancelled trains or way too crowded trains, the electronic system fails and the whole thing comes to a screeching halt for hours. Been there, done that.

Of course, if you are in the capital or the bigger cities you are more likely to have a nice ride, but if you are in the rural areas you are lucky if the bus even runs once an hour and after 9 pm. I would like to live out in the middle of nowhere with loads of nature around me, but I can't do that because I would literally be stuck without being able to get anywhere. So I am forced into the cities in a way.

I couldn't even afford a used car. As it is right now, I have about 5000DKK saved for that license and that has taken me about 6 months to save for. So I am only halfway there. Maybe next summer I will have enough if my pets don't get sick and needs a vet all of a sudden. If something like that happens the vet is gonna clean me out and my 18 year old cat is not in too good a shape. She has feline leukemia. Then I can start all over with the saving, it seems like something always comes up in that regard. An extra bill that will suddenly screw up everything and I am back to where I started.

We are a socialist nation. Our taxes are over 50% because we pay to have everyone taken care of, no one who can't provide for themselves gets left behind, we have one of the best healtcare systems and childcare systems in the world too and the best social system....if we didn't have those high taxes and high prizes there would be no money to pay for all that. And I know it sounds crazy to you American's but it kinda works for us. There is a reason we are named the happiest people in the world, helping others feels good. I stand by our system and regret nothing.

Even though I practiced some in my teens, I didn't get my license until I was 21. My family always went everywhere together so there really wasn't ever a need for me to drive my own car. But as I got older and got my own job, I needed to drive myself places. And I hated people asking me when I was going to get my license all the time.

I've never been the kind of guy that is enthusiastic about cars, and I don't think I ever will be. They scare me.

I tried having lessons twice, but quitted due to overwhelm - so much thrown at you all at once, and lessons were expensive. I learnt in a manual and I heard automatic is generally better for Aspies, but I'm not keen to put myself through it again even though its overwhelming when you just walk around for transport and a car passes you every second. If I passed I wouldn't know where I'd exactly go anyway.
In my opinion it's a very NT orientated skill. You have to read visual cues from other drivers and communicate well, deal with uncertainty as the road is different each time. I suffer from OCD, anxiety and panic too. I guess some Aspies can be better at it than others.

I got my license at the age of 28, mostly because when I was in high school, they only had the classroom portion of driver's ed and my parents didn't want to pay for behind the wheel lessons. They also didn't want their insurance rates to go up by my being a teenager and at the highest risk at the time. In the end, it was a DOR counselor that suggested I just get my license as it would help me get a job anywhere, as public transportation doesn't go everywhere. My first car was one my mom had for years, and when that finally bit the dust, my dad got me a new car for a birthday gift almost 3 years ago.

I started driving when I was 19. I felt so jelous of my same age cousin who started driving when he was 16. He's always ahead of me. I had to pay $150 per week for lessons, which used up most of my money at the time.

I'm 26 and still don't drive. I'd like to sometime in the future; I just haven't had many opportunities to.

To all non Americans, I should clarify something. In the USA, the majority of people learn to drive and get their licence in High School, after taking a Driver Education course during their third year. The behind the wheel training is given usually by your Physical Education teacher. There is a fee, but its nowhere near as expensive as in Denmark.

We can't get a license until we are 18, but I think there are some talks about lowering the age to 16. Or it was already passed last year, maybe. I don't remember.