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A Guide for Beginners: Driving an Automatic Vehicle

Because automatic cars are simpler to operate than manual ones, learning to drive one can be beneficial for people starting their driving lessons.

Beginners may concentrate better on steering, road awareness and making safe decisions in an automated car since there is no clutch pedal or need to shift gears, distracting them from the rest. This helps can boost the confidence of people who just started taking driving lessons, especially when they start to drive in Edinburgh’s busiest roads.

Having said that, here we use a car with manual gears, as we feel this is the best for learning and preparing you for your driving test. Once you master driving with manual gears, it is pretty easy to adapt to a car with automatic gears.

If you do any driving practice with family and friends, it may be a good idea to do so with a car that has manual gears to avoid any confusion in the first learning stages.

Call  Colin at Driving  Lessons Edinburgh and book your first driving lesson today!

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