Driving Lessons

The debate about what type of car in learn to drive in came round again this week.

I took a pupil for PassPlus who had learnt to drive and passed their test with a different school and had learnt in a diesel car. Problem was she couldn’t drive my petrol car! and took about 2 hours to get used to it in a way that we could then carry on with the passplus modules.

The problem is that in a diesel car, you don’t need any gas on to be able to move the car off in most situations. In a petrol car you need to apply gas before bringing up the clutch to the biting point, before being able to move off.

Not too much difference but one that caused alot of pain for the young driver trying to get to grips with it.

Maybe only driving tests should be done in petrol cars.

If you learn to drive in a petrol car, it’s easy to pick up the technic for a diesel - but very difficult the other way round!