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This is my son learning to drive. That's me on the right clearly seen depressing the imaginary brake pedal that comes standard on all models sold to families of teenage children.

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jul 12, 2011

this had me thrown for a loop
i could not see anything
i saw 2 upside down strangely shaped people
now i can see the driver and son from an overhead view into a convertible (or for the sake of being able to see inside, merely a roofless car)
true idea!

oh yeah.... my sympathies, Brian. :-)

this is pretty cool Brian,great idea.I taught my son,my daughter,and my x-wife how to drive on standard transmission cars,i must of pushed that imaginary brake pedal a million times thru that.

Good luck to both of you, Brian.

Thanks. He's actually doing quite well but I'm still nervous.

great!!! angle

I'll have both legs pushing the brake!

Very funny, Brian. I would also have swung my arm across his chest to protect him when braking. This shows my age of driving in the pre-seat-belt era.

Is that a bald spot I see there, Brian? :-)

i thought bald spot also T

You must go back and check out my self portrait. #11713

Oh yeah, now I remember that one. :-)

You sound like Adam Teresa ;-D

I have another 6 years to go, but I already press the invisible brake pedal whenever my husband is driving!

I must admit I sometimes will mash that pedal when my wife is driving too.

How funny, I just taught a neighbor to drive stick shift today. She'd driven a "3 on the tree" as a teenager about 35 years ago, but never a "four on the floor".

However she took to it like a duck to water, and I lived to tell the tale.

There is nothing better than driving a 3 on the tree. I wish i could get one again. Our 58 Dodge has push button automatic,is anyone familiar with that? It's pretty cool.

my edsel had it in the center of the steering wheel

That was so cool too Tom.

Wow, it is hard to believe that this was 6 years ago. He'll be 22 this summer.

The scariest thing I've ever done was teaching my girls to drive. All of the responsibility and none of the control.
I love the image - I thought it was going to be a spin class at the gym!

There is great column by Ezra Dyer in a recent car mag about teaching younger people to drive a manual transmission car. His niece get the hang of it pretty quickly, but then later when she goes to start the car herself, she couldn't glom on to the lack of a push-button starter, and says "I've never driven a key car before!"

Hilarious!

My son Arlo just got his driver's license last week (yay!), so we have been doing years of this! I'm a worrier even with an experienced driver at the wheel, so I am glad to be doing less stomping on the imaginary brake pedal.

"I've never driven a key car before!" *is* hilarious!!

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