Go for it - you're hardly geriatric! - if you're nervous, learn to drive an automatic, less to think about and less to deal with, although it does mean you can't drive a manual car. You couldn't possibly be any worse than some of the idiots on the road already!
It never to late to learn. I took up Scuba diving when I was 37. I am 40 this year and now living in Thailand. Wish I had dun it earlier tho. Give it a go, it should be fun
