About 1954, I started learning how to drive, but I was not yet age 16, so I couldn't take the driver's training course that was offered at my Mankato, Minn., high school.
However, since we lived in a house with a very long driveway, I could at least learn to start and stop the car and drive it back and forth in the gravel driveway. Since the car had a manual transmission, it took some