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View Poll Results: How many years have you been driving?

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  • less than a year

    1 4.17%
  • between 1 and 2 years

    0 0%
  • between 2 and 3 years

    2 8.33%
  • between 3 and 4 years

    0 0%
  • between 4 and 5 years

    0 0%
  • between 5 and 6 years

    0 0%
  • between 6 and 7 years

    0 0%
  • between 7 and 8 years

    0 0%
  • between 8 and 9 years

    0 0%
  • between 9 and 10 years

    2 8.33%
  • Over 10 years

    19 79.17%
  • Never learned how to drive

    0 0%
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  1. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #1
    [SIZE="5"]How many years have you been driving and how did you learn how to drive?[/SIZE]

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    #2
    more than 20 years na

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    #3
    I've been driving for more than 20 years. My dad taught me when I was in college.

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    #4
    More than 12 years. Started driving when I was in HS.

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    #5
    was able to drive by myself around second year college, so it would be around 13years. My brother taught me how to drive when i was in 4th highschool and first year college every summer vacation. And i really appreciated his patience

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    Jun 2005
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    #6
    19 years already. I self taught myself by watching how the jeepney drivers drove.



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  7. Join Date
    Dec 2008
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    #7
    I'm 53 years old and I started driving when I was 15 so that would make it 38 years. Won't be surprised if I was already driving before most of the forumers are born.

    My father initially refused to have me learn how to drive because he said I was too young. But one time, I tried driving his Land Cruiser FJ out of the driveway and in the process hit the electric post. Since he saw that I was really determined, he decided that it may be better if I learned how to drive properly.

    So he brought me to the logging area and instructed one of his men to teach me. The vehicle was a 3/4 tonner, weapon carrier. His man took me to a banana field, taught me the basics, and told me to learn on my own by driving between the banana trunks. So off I went on my own. Initially, I was hitting banana trunks left and right. But the weapons carrier was a strong and sturdy vehicle so I just kept on going. By the afternoon, I was already driving expertly between the banana trunks without hitting anything.

    I was so happy driving that every weekend, I would travel on my own to the logging camp just to be able to drive. Soon, I learned to drive an old Ford 250 pick-up, then a Ford 6-wheeler truck, and before the year was over, and without my father knowing it at the time (I think) also learned to drive 18-wheeled trailers (Peterbuilts, Macks, and Whites) used in hauling logs.

    By the time I was 17, I had my driver's license (ni-fake yung age). Kumpleto pa ng restrictions (malakas sa LTC pa noon). I asked my father for a summer job as a driver and after he tested me and saw that I was capable, I had my first earnings driving logging trucks from the cutting area to the sawmill.

  8. Join Date
    Nov 2005
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    #8
    21 years, my dad and kuya taught me the basics then enrolled at socialites driving institute for 2 weeks session before getting my first non-pro

  9. Join Date
    Jun 2008
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    #9
    For me i started driving at the age of 13, by the time i got to 20 i've already drive in circuit and drag race, that was a long time ago,then by the age of 21 upto date i drive in all types of 4wheel trail did also a little racing 4x4. Bike on the other hand learn it when is was 23 sport and touring bike's.

  10. Join Date
    Sep 2007
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    #10
    I have 11 months under my belt . Just warming up this year for driving .

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    Oct 2002
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    #11
    9 years...started driving when i was 17..am 26yrs old right now

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    #12
    8 years, started 1st year college.

  13. Join Date
    Feb 2006
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    #13
    I learned how to drive when I was 11 years old. I observed how my Dad used the clutch, shift gears and maneuver the car. One day, I bribed our new family driver with a pack of Champion cigarettes to let me drive against my Dad's orders so I drove the car myself for the first time.

    Got my license after graduating from High School, so I've been driving (with a license) for 25 years on 2009

  14. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #14
    Officially, 15 yrs.

    I learned how to drive by listening and watching my dad teaching my older brother to drive. And when nobody's at home, I tried what I learned with our then owner-type jeep inside our garage, atras-abante lang I think I was in Grade 5 or 6 that time.
    Then during highschool I would sometimes drive my classmate's car.

    I got my non-pro driver's license during my 2nd year in college.

  15. Join Date
    Aug 2008
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    #15
    3 years pa lang

    3rd year HS first drive with our Toyota Revo Vx240D. then dad enrolled me at A-1 for me to learn defensive driving. and then i got my non-pro license before i turned 18 last may 2008.

  16. Join Date
    Mar 2006
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    #16
    I've been driving for 12 years already. My father taught me how to drive when I was in elementary.
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    #17
    Learned the art of driving way back in Feb. 1986...we lived in a condominium so there is a huge parking lot at the back so practiced driving first by driving straight and back then I learned how to park our car...when I was confident enough I would drive our car early in the morning (mga 5 am sneaked it out and drive on the streets without license pa)...

    Got my license on Aug. 1987 so it's been 21 years and a few months but including my informative years in driving that makes 22 years plus.

  18. Join Date
    Apr 2007
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    #18
    17 yrs. . .nagpractice ng walang student's permit inside ayala alabang in a daihatsu charade

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    #19
    9 years....dami na palang beterano dito

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    Nov 2007
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    #20
    16 yrs ... funny story, my neighbor borrows my moms car ( lancer box type lang) kse makapal mukha nung aleng yun eh pupunta ng sabungan walang service kaya ermats ko nauuto ... so after a while napansin ko yung anak na lalaki aba pinag papraktisan yung kotse ng nanay ko, eh ako nga ayaw akong pa turuan sa tiyuhin ko dahil bata pa daw ako (15) eh di nag amok ako hehe ayon natuto tuloy ako ng hindi bukal sa loob nya hehehe.....

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