I'm a middle-aged non-driver and get really annoyed with my friends! They're like oh no she doesn't drive as if I were from another planet! Honestly I hate being in a car and feel free when walking!

I'm a (nearly) 34 year old Australian male, who, yes, has never learned to drive. Years of lessons on and off have only resulted in damaged cars and instructors informing me that they think I'll never get my license. I was never that fussed about it but it's been playing on my mind more and more, plus added pressure from work to obtain it, even though I've proven I don't need it to exceed the role I'm doing. I do feel bad for my wife, as she drives, although she is quite happy with it that way as she hates been a passenger, and I never expect her to drive me around, taking public transport all the time, but I know sometimes it would be handy. I'd like to keep trying, but the amount of money gone into lessons is ridiculous, for the same result - i start sweating, get panic attacks, my mind shuts down and i can't obey even simple instructions - highly frustrating. I can understand the embarrassment and sometimes do feel inadequate, but to be quite honest i don't give a damn what other people think, especially because the ones who are likely to be insulting are the idiots who I think really shouldn't be on the road themselves! but, at least they had the skill to get their licence in the first place, which seems highly unlikely for me!

I am only 18 years old, but have anxiety issue when it comes to driving. It usually isn't much of a problem because I live on the campus of the college I attend. The campus is also in the middle of a fairly large city, so anything I could need is within reasonable walking distance. However, it does pose a problem in my social life due to my significant other going to college two hours away. I feel a sense of guilt whenever she comes to visit because I feel that I don't reciprocate the effort, as much as I'd like to. The guilt is only worsened by the fact that her parents seem to see my lack of a license as a sign of my cowardice and lack of masculinity or responsibility. One more layer of guilt is the fact that my father got me a used car for my eighteenth birthday, apparently seeing it as a right of passage, and now it's just sitting in his driveway. I have taken a driver's lesson before, and have my permit, but I become extremely anxious behind the wheel. I agree with The Somnabulist in that it's an expensive responsibility when you consider the cost of getting a license, buying a car, buying gas and insurance, and maintenance, which only furthers my determination to not want to drive. Ideally, I would want to move somewhere like New York City later in life where there is a strong enough public transportation system to not necessitate having my own vehicle, but for now I am stuck with the decision to live with the guilt, or give in to something that I am not comfortable with.

I am 30 years old and I am beyond frustrated that I can't pass my test. ! My first one was 10 years ago and I failed it , then another year I failed it again, and I completely freaked out and stopped trying, until this year a month ago I decided to try again ! and I failed ! It has kept me up at night knowing that my relatives and their KIDS are getting their licenses from first try at 18 years old and i know I drive better than them, and it's still a shock to EVERYONE : WHAT? you don't have your LICENSE? I live in a city and i never ever need a car and it costs an arm and a leg between insurance and gas and parking, but the idea of getting my license is one of those I WANT IT NOW cause EVERYONE HAS IT !! :(

Mr Divine you have proved my point.

Somewhat older than Mark, as a teenager and in my 20s (1960s) I used to get stick from ALL my mates for darkly predicting the outcome of the selfish obsession with the car. I was right they were wrong. I decided not to drive also because I am apt to be easily distracted by the more interesting things seen from car windows, and also because I crashed a tractor on a golf course through a fence and almost into a posh hotel's lake. Got distracted and cocky. But now I work to promote the child's right to play. Soon to publish, a quantitative estimate of the street play space near to home lost to our kids by the creeping privatisation of space by parking of cars. Scary. But there are less kids today .... Proportionately yes, in numbers - 11.5 million in 1901, 1931 and now. No, playing fields and play areas have not made up the loss of space.

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I gave my car to my X-Wife in the divorce last year, and I have no plans of getting another, ever period.

I learned to drive when I was 19, 3 years behind most of my friends.

I also built my first car at age 19, every bolt and barring in the engine, including bolting the body of one car to a custom built undercarriage from another.

In my 20's I built two 550 spyder kits, and half a dozen 914's, that I learned to race, drift and have "more fun than humans should be allowed".

Point is, most road going folks don't have a clue as to the workings of a car, much less how to drive one.

And that's OK, they have better things to do, like texting, and balling it up into a hunk of flaming flesh a metal.

So I have retired, and you should to, we all should remove the lose nut from behind the wheel.

Google ..Autonomous vehicles.. they have ;-)

Oh, and an autonomous car can get 500 mpg

I am a 53 year old non-driver. While I learned to drive and did so for 30 years, sometimes professionally, I gave it up for many reasons, primarily because I have seizures. Now, I realize that all the expense of driving, owning a vehicle, insurance, fuel etc. is more than I care to take responsibility. It is an industry, from start to finish, and I opt out now, with no regrets.

Che Geuvara was known to be a very bad driver!!

I'm in my mid forties and do not drive. I took loads of lessons when I was 17 but realised driving was not for me. My husband doesn't drive either and we are also childfree so you can imagine we are considered to very odd by certain members of society. That said we are both very fit as we walk everywhere and we are quids in because we do not have to pay for the cost of running a car. We still seem to accomplish the same things in life that our car-owning friends have, we live in a town that is well served for transport and services and we have deliveries made to us. What you've never had you just don't miss!

just pay for a cab : ) DONE

I'm 27 year old non-driving male, I took driving lessons at 21 for fun but never even thought about taking the test. I decided about the age of 9 I didn't want to drive and I'm sticking to it.

Love being driven around by other people tho!

I gave up trying to drive after my second crash! I beleive I am not capable of it and have saved many innocent lives by staying off the road! Infact, everyone should be thanking me that they are all atill alive!

I am a 38 year old male who cannot drive.

At the age of 17, there was no way I could afford the lessons, and that scenario did not change for about 10 years.

I started learning to drive at the age of 27. After 4 years learning and 3 failed tests, I became disillusioned and gave up.

Mark, I understand how you feel when you mentioned feeling like something of a failure because everyone around me has passed their test.

One day I`ll get back into it. I don`t want to buy a car (don`t need it and cannot afford it), but it would be a great feeling to know I`ve passed my test.

@Starsky: One place .. Lake Mungo NSW .. it'll cost about $4,000 for a taxi from the nearest place. I've got 4 kids, one of whom goes to dancing and singing three times a week. There is no public transport and cycling is too far for me and too time consuming. A taxi would cost way too much.

When I was 16 in 1972, I was afraid to get behind the wheel of a car and told my parents I did not want to learn to drive. They accepted my decision.

Two years later, just a few months before my 18th birthday, I was ashamed I had not yet gotten my driver's license and learned to drive. Then one day in May of 1974, I told my mother that I had to learn to drive. She furiously objected because of my coordination and learning disabilities. She was afraid to let me learn to drive and I was scared of out of my wits of not getting to learn to drive.

Fortunately, my father stepped in favor of my learning to drive. Before going away on summer vacation. My mother gave in and agreed to my learning to drive

When I came home after summer vacation, my father rightfuly got angry and reprimanded me to always stop at a STOP SIGN.! I finally did get my driver's license on December 11, 1974. But even to this day, I sometimes still have pangs of bastardization, because I did not get my driver's license at 16 and that my driver's is fiquratively invalid, even though I helped to bastardize it!

On the bright side in all my years of driving, I have had only three accidents and have only gotten only three traffic tickets. that I can remember.

Had my father also been against my learning to drive, I very well might have gone to prison for arson and been in for a rude awakening behind bars. This is because during my youth, I had these pro-Hitler anti-semitic feelings to blame my coordnation and learning disabilities on my being Jewish. At that time in my life, I seriously contemplated putting on a Nazi uniform and burning down the synagogue where I was Bar-mitzvahed.

Ironically, if I did commit this act of arson, I would have been forced to recieve a taste of my own medicine. I would have had to live under the many legal restrictions that convicted felons must live under, upon being released from prison. In other words, I would have had to re-enact what it must have been like to have been a German Jew under the 1930's Nazi Nuremburg Laws.

@starsky: how about the moon. No taxis or public transport. And its well worth going to for the views alone.

"The assumption that anyone can drive has caused more deaths than I dare to think about".

So right. See also: being a parent.

I'm nearly 30 and can't drive, but I think it's easier as a woman. There's this stupid link between driving and cars and masculinity, and people still look askance at a woman driving with a man in the passenger seat. Non-driving men I know have had to take a lot more crap for it than I ever have.

I learnt to drive when i was 36, Main reason i didn't learn when i was younger was the expense, could not afford it, however, i don't regret the years i didn't drive, as i'm dam sight fitter than most people my age, as i commuted to work for years, sometimes up to 20 miles aday, also did alot of walking that i simply wouldn't have done if i had passed at 18.