For many people, learning to drive is relatively straightforward, with a decent number of lessons and a bit of road experience setting them up to pass the first time, or maybe at the second go.

However, not everyone is like that. Some may find themselves struggling, whether they are low on confidence, anxious or simply all thumbs when it comes to handling the gears. The test, when it finally comes, can be a bit of a nightmare, especially if the candidate suffers a succession of failures.

Rather than giving up and therefore wasting the time and money put into all those lessons, there is an alternative. By taking automatic driving lessons in Uxbridge, you can try to learn the easier way.

As the RAC notes, it is easier to learn to drive in an automatic. You can concentrate on road position and what is going on around you instead of groping for the gears and working on the clutch, with no risk of an embarrassing stall at the traffic lights that could hold up other traffic and cause you to fail.

The RAC suggests that many actually find an automatic boring to drive because it is easier, but if driving does not come naturally to start with, that could be something of a relief and the lack of difficulty could be invaluable in helping to build up confidence and dispel nerves. 

Some may even try for an automatic to start with without trying a manual, as this could help them pass sooner.

Of course, there are some disadvantages, chiefly that if you pass in an automatic you will only be licensed to drive this kind of car and would need another test before you could legally drive a manual. 

However, if an automatic proves to be the way to make life easier and finally enable you to ditch the L plate, that could be a price well worth playing.