Find The Right Driving Instructor With These 2 Simple Questions

Taking private driving lessons with an experienced instructor is one of the best ways to learn how to drive, as they can provide you with their complete attention and give you personalized tips. To ensure you get the most out of the lessons, though, it's important to find the right driving instructor for you. Here are two questions that you can ask instructors to determine which one is most suited to meet your needs.

Where do you provide driving lessons?

The best place to learn to drive is right in your hometown. Since you're already a little familiar with the roads from riding around, walking, or biking, you'll be able to focus on learning to drive -- rather than trying to figure out where you are. Additionally, taking driving lessons on the roads in your hometown gives an instructor an opportunity to point out any hazards that are unique to where you live. Finally, learning to drive in your town gives you an opportunity to become comfortable driving along routes that you normally take, like the route to school.

Not all driving instructors who advertise in your hometown necessarily teach students how to drive on the roads in your town. They may be based downtown in a city and advertise in the suburbs, or they might simply teach in the next town over. So you should ask every driving instructor you consider taking lessons with where they teach and limit your search to ones who actually have students drive in your hometown.

Do your fees include any additional materials?

Additional materials can complement what you learn in your private lessons and help reinforce the things you're taught. They can also serve as valuable resources after your lessons are over, as you can look up any questions you have in the days, weeks, months or, even, years after your last private driving lesson is over.

For these reasons, you'll likely want some supplemental materials. You don't have to get these materials through your driving instructor, but many provide additional materials with the cost of their private lessons. It's often also easier to get them from an instructor, because you don't have to go to the store or wait for them to be shipped. You can get the resources when you take your first driving lesson.

If an instructor's fees don't include books or DVDs, ask them what other resources they recommend -- and then check how much these resources cost to buy. Adding the price of these resources onto the instructor's fees will let you fairly compare their rates with an instructor who does offer resources with their lesson fees. If purchasing the resources separately is significantly cheaper, saving money may be worth the inconvenience.

For more information, talk with different driving schools in your area, like All American Auto Driving School.