To believe that 'feeding the wheel' is actually dangerous, a waste of time etc...

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I hold a driving licence from abroad, so does my DH. We are allowed to drive on it for one year , then we must sit the entire UK test again...

I've been driving for 7 years and him since 1977!

As we know the UK is obsessed with this feeding the wheel crap, we have been practicing.

It actually makes things more dangerous, stopping the car from doing what it does naturally.

I am not suggesting that crossing your hands is great, we don't do that...but not letting the wheel run through ones hands is, (imo) plan daft.

Worrying really, as its a fail here isn't it?

what did you say kayano

Thanks for all the good luck vibes ... I'm gonna need them!

I have driven in Bavaria in Winter - I am guessing it's the same but no American ergo prolly not as good or as dangerous

My H passed the uk licence after 10 years of driving abroad. He had a month of lessons and passed first time. The whole thing cost him around £550

What's your point erik?

Where are you from Feminine?

Some licences can just be exchanged.

I had some Malasian friends, their licences were not recognised for exchange, but a Hong Kong licence is.

Hong Kong however, does recognise Malasian licences so they applied for and got Hong Kong Licences and then exchanged them for UK licences.

You mention the states. If you are from the US it might be easier to get a Canadian licence - that can be exchanged for a UK auto licence.

Yes, we will be doing that. I just think we have been driving too long to relearn it.

I thought op was saying they wouldn't be able to learn the English way in order to pass. I was being encouraging.

Just get a driving instructor to teach you. I'm taking my test for the first time soon and honestly I agree some of the ways you need to do stuff for the test is plain daft. My instructor has taken to showing me how to do things for the test and then how everyone does it once they have passed! Doesn't really matter, as long as you can do it right once for the test you can go back to driving how you feel more comfortable after that.

I do it and I passed in 1989.

I just wanted to contribute my US driving test story. Bonus points to anyone who can guess the state I was in.

3 weeks after first getting behind the wheel of my grandmother's 1991 Lincoln Continental, I went to the DMV and took the "theory test" (5 multiple choice questions). One question was "What does a double line in the middle of the road mean" - a) you can overtake, b) you cannot overtake, c) you must pull over or d) you must speed up. I got full marks.

Then I went out, got into the car, instructor got in. I had to do five things:

• turn the car on
• put on my seatbelt
• drive out of the parking lot, turn right, right and right again - we were back in the DMV parking lot
• drive nose first into a parking space under a tree and stay inside the lines (only checked on the passenger side)
• turn the car off

Full marks!!!

I've now been driving for 10 years so have a lot more experience, but I'm still taking lessons before I take the UK driving test later this year.

Oh and how I held the wheel was not on the test. They may have raised some eyebrows if I was gripping the wheel with my teeth, but I bet I still would have passed.

The UK has pretty much the safest roads in the world if you don't count tiny countries with no cars. We're a little behind Sweden/Finland/Iceland on some measures but we're comfortably better than the US, however you slice it.

For my US test I had to drive around for 45 minutes while taking direction , reverse park and perform an emergency stop!

I know there are states that ask for almost nothing, mine wasn't.

I had to pass my theory first , even before I could get in the car with DH.

While I lived in London, I used to also drive around A LOT (with an ex) I wish I'd got round to taking my test 20 years ago.

sashh its an American one ~ but thanks.

I'm just going to have to practice...