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Transcript: Learning How to Drive a Car
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Having been raised as an urbanite, Scott Simon never felt the need
to get a driver's license. Now he wants one, and he teams up with
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Car Guys, to teach him how to drive.
SCOTT SIMON, Host: Those troopers will never stop me - I don't drive.
Never have. Never wanted to. I'm a city kid. When I was 16 and
suburban kids were learning to drive, I could take the subway downtown
to Marshall Field's and uptown to Wrigley Field. Where else would
I want to go? When I was in my 20s, my mother and I both took driving
lessons. My driving instructor suffered an accident with another
student. Then he died. How could I not consider that a sign? ...