I can vouch for everything you said tbaker! One day they are tugging on your pant leg wanting to go and the next you are tugging on theirs trying to get them to go.
These pioneers would be great for teaching our kids to drive. You have a steering wheel, brake, gas pedal and the driver is offset to the left same as driving a car.
I taught my kids by letting them drive on the back roads when they were young and by the time they were 16 getting a drivers licence was just a formality. If I had of got caught probably would have had thrown the book at me. I never understood how not letting them drive anything until they are 16 then they can buy a permit and go on the highway first day with another person in the car. (how dangerous is that) I say let the kids drive with supervision!