goodnoodle

So my school's driver's ed program is iffy and sometimes they dont have it so (at the idea of my counselor) taking it online. Uhhh I'm going crazy. They're saying such obvious things, and unnecessary things like the history of cars. (Yes Driver's ed lady, I know that Henry Ford invented the Model-T.) The worst part is that the website I'm doing it through features a lady who personally recorded the thing just for teenagers. God she's so condescending. She assumes that every teenager is an idiot.

So how did you do driver's ed? At home? At school? etc

Thoughts and reflections on your own drivers ed experiences?

aldfig0

I studied online for my written test (the California DMV videos on youtube are helpful), and paid for a driving instructor. I got a perfect score on the written test and only missed 1 point on the driving test (you're allowed to miss up to 15).

I learned some things that I thought were irrelevant but they turned out to be on the test. So I wouldn't skip them.
The driving instructor really helped because he pointed out things I would have never noticed by myself.

goodnoodle

Ha I wish I could skip stuff. If I try to skip anything the lesson starts over

CE527M

I have it next semester....see at my school,, we have to take gym 9th and 10th, and in 10th, we take driver`s ed....we`ll learn all that stuff, and the fun part is that if I sign up for it, I can take this thing where I get to drive and get out of sitting in class and whatnot and go drive with the driver`s ed lady. Either that or pay for my own lessons, those are my state`s rules.

Sorry about your class. Sounds pretty bad.

FantasyVesperia

Drivers-Ed where I live it's not operated by the school, it's run by separate organizations. It's not fun, it's incredibly boring. My dad teaches driver education and it's weird having your parent yell at you in front of strangers lol.

goodnoodle

Now it's giving definitions of force, mass, and inertia. Yes I did learn in 7th grade that an object in motion stays in motion. There's just so much obvious/irrelevant stuff.

...The lady actually recorded a badly sung children's song about potential and kenetic energy...

Niquii77

Lololololol...here I'm from nobody cares about the written rules. I failed by written test twice...second time I had one correct answer more than my incorrect answer and the guy was like "Ok...just come here and get it." Hahha

My driver's test I didn't get anything wrong. It was raining and everything. Driving comes naturally to me. I didn't have a driving instructor. My mom just let me drive her places and whatnot.

There were times that I just wanted to jump out if the car due to the frustration of my mom freaking out when I break too late or something along those lines. She even does that hen I drive now. I've been driving for 3 or 4 months now and I've had my car for 5 months. Learning how to drive definitely gets better when you have your own car (from my experience). I hated driving my Mom's car. She has a "luxury" car and it accelerates too fast...breaks too fast...gah too mug of everything. Plus the thing is huge. I definitely like my car better. We're like this *crosses fingers* now.

OTLcat

What site did you study from?

papamula

I took Driver's Ed at my school over the summer and it was torture. Had to get there by eight in the morning every day and stay there for six hours. Plus, my instructor was super strict about time; she wouldn't release us until we had endured exactly six hours. She actually hung a countdown clock set for six hours every day on the board.... The information and lessons were all useless, too. At least it only lasted five days. But then after that I had to receive six hours total of behind-the-wheel training from another instructor. I had to get to the school parking lot by 6:30 every morning. IT WAS TERRIBLE!! I'm so glad it's all done and gone.