Do you drive or not?

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I LOVE driving, it is so relaxing. But.. I hate traffic and other drivers. Too many cars bothers me, and I hate parking lots. , and thus being the only reason I dislike driving. Other than that, i find it very relaxing.

At one time I was actually somewhat confident with my abilities behind the wheel, but now I would not trust myself with anything larger or more powerful than an atv. I don't drive, and I've never been licensed, though I do have some experience driving on back roads and in fields, with someone experienced at my side.

before I could drive, I was basically stuck at home because I could not get transportation anywhere.

I prefer biking/not going anyplace at all but I do have a license, and can drive just fine. It took me two fails on the license test before getting it the third time. I'm self-diagnosed at the moment, but the only thing Aspie [potentially] about me that has an effect on my about driving is the social aspect.
At 4-way stops I get awkward and don't always drive so confidently if someone gets to the stop about the same time. But its about negligible. Getting on and off highways sucks too, but once I'm on and "hidden in the crowd" I kind of enjoy it actually.
However, on my tests, my social anxiety definitely affected me. I completely didn't hear the old man testing me tell me to take a left turn and he probably failed me on that

I drive daily. Sometimes in some of the most terrible driving weather Canada has to offer.

Have two vehicles that I drive. 2006 Chevrolet Express 3500 6.6L Duramax turbo diesel 250HP, 450ftlbs Tq. The other one is a totally restored 1986 Honda Civic Hatchback, 1.3L 45HP at best... but it has a snazzy Centerforce stage 3 racing clutch.... making sure all 45 of those ponies make it to the ground... (cost me $350 and 3 weeks for them to design and build the clutch for me). It is kind of like driving around a sporty upholstered skateboard, well, a skateboard has less understeer...

I got my beginners @ 14, got my class 5 3 months later and my class 1 with air brakes 2 years after that. Needed it for the work/area I was living in (farm country)

Moved to Victoria BC, Bought a 1963 Rambler, had it semi restored, enough to drive. ICBC, the provincial monopoly insurance company tried to steal $6400 a year from me. For basic coverage with a clean abstract.

I bought a really snifty mountain bike and let my license expire. The thought being I would NEVER leave the island and I had no need of a car. Which worked for 4 years till I moved to Alberta for work.

So at the age of 38, just last November, I completed the graduated licensing program and challenged the driving exam. Fourteen years after I moved here. I do things slowly, like glacial.

I used the BIG HUGE VAN with GIANT BLIND SPOTS to do the driving test. My examiner was non-plussed as he climbed aboard.

I passed with almost flying colours, I cut the last left turn a bit short. Did not dock me points, just gave me a reminder.

So yeah, I love to drive. Just not in the city. I hate that.

Some of my private driving collection. Some old stuff from way back when I had my first 3G Civic with the squeaky hatch seal to the newer stuff with the big van.

Short clip of me driving 1 Yes I backed far enough away from the stop sign after I shut the camera off.
Short clip of me driving 2 Trigger warning: Shaky. No I was not speeding, I was doing the speed limit and I had 4 studded winter tires.
Short clip, on gravel after a spring rain.
Short clip, pulling onto the highway in the winter All the thumps you hear are potholes. It was -38c that morning NOT including windchill
Summertime, gravel road, cute dog co-pilot. Beautiful day for a drive int he country
Random sitting in the parking lot awkward clip.

I am working on a proper camera mount for the headache rack behind my seat. No guarantee the video will be less shaky... it is a one ton van afterall.

I did get a licence but it quickly became apparent that I am to un coordinated to drive safely.

I can honestly say that not driving probably marginalizes me as much if not more then my other more direct autism traits. It has automatically eliminated me from consideration from countless jobs. People just do not get what is involved. Most important I have been close to being seriously injured or killed a number of times. Even when trying to helpful drivers have put my life in danger. An example is trying cross a multilane highway occasionally a driver will try and be nice and stop to let me go. What they don't bother considering is nobody is stopping in the other lanes so if I go in front of them I will be run over in the next lane. Then they get mad at me for not accepting their "gift" . And there is always the occasional bottle or other object thrown at me from passing cars.

The only reason buses are funded at all is so employers can get a supply of minimum wage workers. If it was put to a referendum taxpayers would overwhelmingly vote to eliminate buses. 90% of the comments are in the vain of I am sick and tired paying for you why don't you get a job or learn how to drive or pay the entire cost. You never hear that resentment towered riders of the Long Island Rail Road which mostly transports people to middle and upper class jobs. You never hear proposals that drivers should pay the entire cost of the maintaining the highways they use.

Ironic thing is I live only 20 miles away from the most mass transit friendly place in the world New York City. In California drivers by law must let pedestrians cross first. I did not realize this first time I traveled there. I stopped at an intersection and me and the drivers spent 10 minutes looking at each other. California is even more car centric then Long Island but what a difference in attitude.

No, and I have no intention to get a driver's license.

I drive and have no problems with driving. I just have to go on the motorway yet (I've only just passed my test some weeks ago). When I can afford some petrol, I will go on the motorway with my dad.

I finally got my license three weeks ago yesterday. I'd been putting it off for so long because I hate it, I'm not very good at multitasking or judging speed and distance, and driving makes me very anxious. I also have zero sense of direction, so I've been practising using my dad's GPS, which is hard because I still have trouble trying to discern where it wants me to turn and how I know that I'm in the right lane and everything. I've been taking the bus to college and back for three years, which is about a 50-mile round trip. It involves a lot of getting up ridiculously early and then waiting around for ages because the connecting buses do not sync up well time-wise. That was the primary reason I finally got my license, because I was fed up with the stupid bus route every day. Of course, I have to find a job before I can afford to get and maintain my own car, especially if I'm going to be driving it 50 miles a day; that's a lot of gas. I wish I could afford to hire a chauffer.

I'll take the test in a month, but I seem to have been learning slower than average. I don't despise driving as much as say cycling, but I find it very hard and it makes me tired sooo quickly because I have to pay attention to so many things at once.

I have my license, but I prefer not to drive. I haven't driven anywhere in a while. I just prefer to have other people take me to places.

I got my driver's license at 18 without a problem, but driving makes me extremely anxious, and I have never owned a car. I keep my license up to date, but have only driven maybe 20 times or less in my entire life. When I am able to earn enough to afford a car that won't constantly break down, I will need to take driver's ed again. The thought of driving terrifies me. And, I never knew that fear of driving is an autism spectrum trait! I just thought I was a big, anxious baby.

No. In early twenties and yet to know, if able to.

I have a license but overall I don't like it and I don't currently own a car. (It makes me save so much money ) On country roads when there is little traffic I like it for a while, but I quite quickly get fed up, and I hate driving in cities.

Fortunately the last cities where I have been living are Paris and London, where the public transportation system is good and driving is globally a bad idea unless you really have a reason for it (carrying something or someone, visiting the outer suburbs).