I recently turned 18, so my parents signed me up for driving school. When I showed up at the academy, I was surprised by the cars they had available for students to learn on. They told me to pick whichever I liked best, and I chose the Mercedes-Benz G500.

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    a 1968 International dump truck.

    1000003120

    zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.

    once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.

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    no sure. I did not get my license until like 21 because my friends were sick of me not being able to drive so I took it on my friends automatic small car. My parents had a stick shift station wagon.

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      I always thought these “ask” communities were a great vector to extract PII.

      all you’d need to do is link users to leaked identities and probably get access to accounts quickly.

      this is why I make up the wrong answers to any of those questions.

      what was you first pets name?

      Hannibal Lecter

      what was your mothers maiden name?

      Poopsmith

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      I have never seen this as a security question. I mean it sounds like one but have never seen it in the wild.

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    Currently learning on a Peugeot e-208 which is electric. Apart from that, t is more or less the same as the manual version.

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    Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s

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        It’s often a security question for institutions like banks to reset your security parameters.

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          I’ve only seen it as “what color was your first car?” But I learned to drive with my parents cars. They are not the same, nor even the same color

          I suppose for some it’s the same and some may interpret the question differently

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    1982 AMC eagle wagon with woody side panels.

    The car actually caught on fire while I was driving, and I was known as the person that smelled like burnt car in high school, because that burning rubber/plastic smell stayed in my books and materials for the entire school year.

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    Driver’s Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.

    Parent’s Cars:

    1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn’t so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.

    1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It’s the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13’s in the quarter mile.

    Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort

    REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend’s Dad’s car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho’d transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.

    The car that taught me how to race (there were two):

    1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend’s car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90’s.

    1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn’t handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me “trail braking” and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I’ve ever owned, even to this day. I’d love to find one and restore it.

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      My sister’s first car was an 86 cavalier. It was blue and had a manual transmission. She stalled the engine going over train tracks once and the train crossing lit up as she was trying to restart it. Panic ensued…

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    I guess it depends on the country, we have to provide our own cars in the US. I used my brothers small Toyota Corolla so i could do the 3 point turns and stuff easier in a smaller car. If you go too far up the curb or into the grass, you fail. Then after i got my license, i bought a HUGE cheap chevy impala. That thing was a boat, but drove so well.

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    A riding lawnmower. Good enough to get the basic hand eye coordination down, so when I drove a real car it wasn’t a big deal.

    The first actual car I drove was a Toyota sienna.

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    1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once – in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn’t been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)