The Driving Space

A few quick questions

About learning to drive - what helps, what's annoying, what you'd actually use. No wrong answers, skip anything you like.

How do you know how you're doing right now?
Between lessons, do you think about driving?
Has an instructor ever shown you where you are on the syllabus?
If you got a link after each lesson showing what you'd improved on, would you open it?
Would you watch a short video on something you struggled with, in your own time?
How do you pay for lessons?
Do you always know how many hours you've got left?