Posted on 02/20/2026 2:41:40 PM PST by fruser1
Experts from Tempcover surveyed youngsters about the common motoring tasks they find the most daunting.
Changing a flat tyre was the biggest fear, while parallel parking, hill starts, and merging onto a motorway were also found to terrify hundreds of young drivers.
The findings will come as no surprise to many Gen Z, who regularly post about their driving phobias on TikTok.
Gen Z's biggest driving fears
Changing a flat tyre (36%)
Jump-starting the car when the battery is dead (36%)
Parallel parking (24%)
Checking the tyre pressure at a garage and topping them up with air (22%)
Hill starts (22%)
Checking oil levels (20%)
Calling the insurance company / claiming (19%)
Driving on the motorway (18%)
Merging onto a motorway (18%)
Calling breakdown cover company (18%)
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I think there may be some legs being pulled here but, in case this one is true, I'm going to start riding around w/small participation trophies that I can throw out the window as I drive by youngsters broken down on the highway.
Good news for Uber drivers!
If you get nervous while driving just have a few drinks , that always relaxes me
The FACE act will hopefully disenfranchise these losers.
I find it interesting that the article doesn’t compare today’s youth to those in the past. I have a feeling all young drivers are nervous about something when they start driving. Although checking your oil and calling a tow company seem like rather ridiculous things to have anxiety over.
I’ll acknowledge an ongoing “terror” of parallel parking...
I remember someone on Reddit saying “If someone honked at me, I would wreck the car and never drive again”. There are actually bumper stickers that say “Please don’t honk. I am terrified”.
These are also obviously British.
Worthless tools.
These are also obviously British.
How is it possible that American youth have become so useless and filled with fear in just a couple of generations? It is like a mass psychosis has taken hold.
If you raise your kids in a bubble, afraid of their own shadows ...
What do you think THEIR kids are going to be like?
Helicopter parents have left their children without the ability to thrive. I know far too many young adults that are functionally illiterate.
It will be like swimming, graduating High School or learning a second language.
The longer you put it off, the harder it will be.
I taught my kids to drive stick shifts when they were 14/15 years old. They have great driving records and my grandkids are the same. You have to know how to swim and drive period. If it moves I can drive it was my attitude. Hell I drove a nuclear submarine in the 70’s. My take offs in airplanes might be worrysome, forget landing, my old man was a paratrooper, so I know I could get down after takeoff, obviously you’d have be on drugs to fly with me. I really want an extendaboom, I love those machines.
Parallel parking was the funnest part of the Driving Exam back in high school. Watching the basketball tense up when you went to perform the maneuver was awesome, almost failed the first time on purpose just to watch him twitch.
I’ve watched my neighbors daughter try to park her Dakota sport. It’s entertaining in a perverse way. The first time she made numerous attempts at parallel parking. After blocking traffic for several minutes, probably longer, she drove down the street and still had issues pulling straight in and backing up without climbing the curb.
had to learn hill starts with an old manual shift van with bad clutch lol- couldn’t wait to get my license-
How is it possible that American youth have become so useless and filled with fear in just a couple of generations? It is like a mass psychosis has taken hold.
No major wars.
“I’ll acknowledge an ongoing “terror” of parallel parking.”
There’s a formula.
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