Tom's Auto Driving School

Reviews

• SA

  Spencer Aaronson

  May 21, 2026
  1.0
  The following review is in no way a knock on Tom's sister, another driving instructor at the place, who was excellent. Tom was the creepiest, most unprofessional driving instructor imaginable. Instead of teaching, he'd simply yell at you. During my first lesson, he tried to show me videos of himself flying a plane WHILE I WAS DRIVING. Every time you ran over any bump in the road, including sewer covers and other normal things like that, he would yell, sometimes even asking you to pull over the car so he could pull out his book of autoparts and show you everything he'd have to replace because of you. He tells his students not to use turn signals when sitting at a red light, because it diminishes the taillight parts, and he'd have to pay to replace them. During my last lesson with him, he scrolled YouTube shorts for an hour straight without answering my questions or instructing me at all. Once, he told me that if I ever saw his daughter in trouble, I had permission to "shoot the guy in the head" and "he'd protect me". Total creep, parents beware, and don't sign your child up for this place.
• AA

  Alex

  Feb 11, 2025
  1.0
  Tom did teach me how to drive smoothly, but the overall instruction was low quality and not worth the price. He barely covered the rules of the road, and on my very first lesson, he just told me to start driving—what if I had never driven before? There was no walkthrough, no basic instructions, nothing. He is also very impatient. When he got annoyed, he put his hands on me, which was completely uncalled for and unprofessional. On the day of my test, I spoke with another student who told me he would pinch her thighs when he disapproved—absolutely unacceptable. For the price, I expected much better. I regret not choosing Fresh Green Light Driving School instead.
• SP

  Sofia Pelle

  May 8, 2024
  5.0
  Tomfoolery’s driving school. He mentioned women’s doctor a LOT.
• SH

  Shahzad Hasan

  Jan 14, 2020
  5.0
  I needed to renew my CT driver licence and took a few refresher classes with Tom to prepare for the road test. Passed the test first time thanks to Tom’s guidance. Tom has very deep knowledge of the road system since he has spent well over 40y teaching drivers. He can be tough, but listening to his advice helped me a lot!
• GG

  Ghazal

  Jun 23, 2018
  1.0
  They are very disorganized and have a very rude receptionists! Especially during the class. Tom himself is a very discouraging driving educator. If you end up signing up for this school cuz there are no better driving schools in the area then just get someone else. In other cities people pay 40$ or so for each hour of education. Here you have to pay 85$ and I think that honestly they don't deserve it. If they charge so much money for one hour they should at the very least update their cars. It feels like I'm driving a wagon.

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