I had one lesson with Lindsey a year ago, and it was honestly a terrible, awful experience. I experienced nothing short of bullying and ableism, mental health shaming and quite frankly surprised such a short tempered person works with the public. She expected me to just know what I needed to do (despite knowing I had never driven before), shouted at me repeatedly and laughed at me when this eventually resulted in me crying due to her behaviour, she then suggested I consider not learning as I "wouldn't cope" with more lessons and that if I cried like that again she would "probably just take me to the hospital [to be sectioned]". Happily I didn't take her advice and found another instructor who was the polar opposite and after just 5 months passed my test first time! Proving that *I* was definitely not the problem. If you have neuro-diversities or anxiety then I'd urge you to look elsewhere as there are some amazing automatic instructors with patience and compassion, sadly Lindsey is not one of them. Read Less

I wouldn't recommend Lindsay good and patient instructor as she was very nasty & horrible towards me every time I made mistakes she had no patience & found her very rude a lot of the time during my driving lessons I had with her & she kept shouting abuse towards me every time I did something wrong & she never helped me with my driving. She was OK on my first lesson that had with her and started to go ballistic on the 3rd lesson. When I went with Lindsay she knocked all my confidence away and I lost all my confidence in learning to drive and put me off of trying to learn to drive. Avoid her at all costs Read Less

Mean-spirited and impatient. I had previously learned to drive as a teenager, and was looking to reacquaint myself and pick up where I'd left off before taking my test. I chose The Automatic Driving School because I was looking to pass quickly, so that I could start using an automatic car which I already owned. I'd describe myself as being confident with driving, prior to booking, and was only really wanting a refresher. I'd unfortunately block booked ten lessons with her, so decided to see them through. In hindsight I wish that I hadn't. Lindsey left me feeling rather shaken and anxious, doubting my own abilities and also doubting myself on a personal level. This is how she'd left me feeling as a confident and experienced 25 year old, so I'd hate to think of how a first time learner would feel. Thankfully I switched to a different instructor who was just lovely, and had the perfect temperament for an instructor. Some examples of her behaviour are as follows. Lindsey would: - Regularly turn up 15 minutes late to our agreed meeting point, strictly leaving just a 45 minute lesson, but still charge for a full hour. - Spend the first 10 minutes of most lessons messing around on her ipad, with social media or iPlayer, whilst I had to sit and wait at the steering wheel. - Swear at other drivers, make gestures at them or just holler out the window at them. - Shout at me when I made a mistake, particularly when trying to parallel park for the first time. She called me stupid a couple of times and shouted that I'd not listened or followed a badly drawn picture she'd scribbled on the back of a tiny flier. - Grab the steering wheel mid drive to make the car swerve towards pedestrians/drivers who she thought shouldn't have done something; to scare them. This left me incredibly shaken. - Tell me that I'd done something, and berate me for it, even when I hadn't. This was very confusing and had me doubting my sanity. I absolutely dreaded driving lesson days, and was very anxious when getting in to a car. Read Less