NoFrills Driving

After almost 1 year since getting his learners.  And over 10hrs of slow on-line classes.  I moved Kieran over to the virtual class.  So that he could get his drivers license in this decade.

I signed him up for Young Drivers in September of 2021.  By Christmas he was not even at 10% completed for the 30hrs of online classes he had to complete before he could do in-car lessons.

By the time June rolled around.  He'd gotten to 12hrs.  At this rate, he'd have to retake the learners test 3 times before he'd finish.  I even did one section and you can't move to the next section until a timer finishes counting down.  Even if you read it 3 or 4 times.  It was that slow!  I called YD support and they were aware.  I could not believe how slow it was.  I thought 30hrs of classes was 30hrs.  Say 1hr / day.  You'd be done in 30days.  No...it is much slower than that.   So in this day of virtual.  Do the virtual in-class. Kinda oxymoron-ish but hey.  Better than 100% online super duper slow pace class.  It's not even senior citizen pace.  It's like slow death pace.

Last week he got his first in-car lesson.  And he had to go to work right after so we asked the instructor if the lesson could end by dropping him off.  His first pay was in animal crackers.  Guess it was a bonus for being a good worker and coming in on time.

Each in-car lesson is 90min in duration.  Not sure how much time they spent in the parking lot.  But those parked cars are totally in the WAY!  This isn't Need for Speed. No reset here.

I wasn't nervous for him, since he wasn't in my car.  haha.

It's good that he's actually been behind the wheel a few times already.  I took him out several times to get a feel, driving around in large empty parking lots was a good start.  PS4 just isn't the same thing and cottage roads might be a bit advanced.  But he'll get there.

Soon, he'll be driving Mr & Ms Daisy.