Originally Posted by
JimCanuck
Take her out to a empty Walmart Parking lot? Helps many people with a fear of driving if they go a few times or more and drive without worrying about hitting anything.
Its all about finding something that isn't as scary as the other, and then over time getting someone used to the scary thing. First with the wife biking only on bike lane roads, then we have a couple of 4 lane one ways in the down town, that got he used to it as the cars stick to the left 3 most lanes anyways on those roads. Then finally getting used to no bike lanes, and cars all over the places.
Doing a little more every time, even if its not a lot of difference from one day to the next, goes a long way to break people's phobias.
Jim
I think they did that, although that was long time, I was a teen, and she was fine until they took it to the streets. She never had the desire to get back behind the wheel anyway.
Originally Posted by
gerv
Maybe she knows something the rest of the world is still struggling with: driving is dangerous. Ask the 40,000 who were killed last year.
No kidding. Perhaps she just has properly functioning survival instincts.