Many novice drivers feel insecure while driving, and some are frankly afraid to drive, especially along busy streets. To get rid of insecurity, you need to find out what exactly causes fear and eliminate the causes of its occurrence.
Confidence behind the wheel comes with experience, but what if the experience is not enough? You can just wait for it to be typed, or you can speed up the process and learn to be calm and confident in a shorter time. In general, you decide for yourself. If you think that you will need a month of training, most likely it will be so.
Typically, novice drivers are afraid of the thought that they will not be able to properly cope with the car, stall at the wrong time, park poorly, not enough space for a U-turn, etc. If these or other similar situations have arisen, conduct a “debriefing”, later, in a calm environment, it is better to go to bed, in slow motion, scroll through what happened before your eyes. Remember how hard you put pressure on the gas, the brake, the clutch, how you turned the steering wheel, and it’s especially important how you felt, what was your breathing, what muscles were tense. Usually, in difficult situations, breathing is delayed, the abdominal muscles tighten. See if you have one. After that, also in slow motion, scroll the situation so that it is correct, mentally press the pedals with the necessary force and unscrew the steering wheel until a certain moment.
Do not be too lazy to create a similar situation for yourself and do it again, but already so, imagined. And while doing this, do not hold your breath and relax the tense muscles of the abdomen (or others), this will drive away fear, calm you and help you feel more confident.
In the early days of self-driving, it is recommended that you drive as often as possible, preferably along the streets with calm traffic. Before the trip, plan a route in your head, mentally do it, think about where you will gain speed and where to reduce, in which place show the turn signal or shift gear. such trips will help you better feel the car, understand how hard you need to press on which pedals. Later, all this will be done "on the machine."
It is better if you ride without passengers. First, you won’t feel uncomfortable in front of them. Secondly, get used to making decisions while driving, as in a driving school, the main responsibility was on the instructor.