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Lesson Overview
If you would like to see what each lesson covers, the link provided gives a brief glimpse at what each lesson entails, teaches, and aims to provide our drivers.
This is especially useful for parents wanting to see how each lesson will benefit their new driver and initiate conversations with their driver about how the experience may be implemented in their real life driving.
Take a look at the lessons here (password:LearnVDI2022) and see the courses your driver will experience as they work to improve their driving experience.
Additional Information
Start with our driving simulator
Although not required by the state of California, driving simulator's are a key component for learning to become familiar with the driving experience in a safe, controlled and dynamic environment.
Practicing on our simulators reinforces good driving habits that may elevate your driving experience to a level of awareness and safety best suited for the real world.
The Driving Experience is designed to complement the existing requirements for driver's education and driver's training.
Simulator courses are not required by the state of California. We offer the program as enhancement and reinforcement to the training required for licensure.
California is one of many states that utilizes the "graduated driver licensing" program. It positions new, inexperienced drivers on a slow, methodical series of stages in order to protect them from accidents and help them gain the driving experience to be safer drivers which gradually allows for licenses to be issued.
California teens under the age of 18 must complete these stages before a final driver's license is issued (AAA - Teen Drivers, A Guide To California's Graduated Driver License):
Stage 1 - obtain a provisional permit
Stage 2 - obtain a provisional license
Stage 3 - provisional license becomes a full license when you have met the CA DMV requirements
Our program at The Drivers Experience adds an additional level of mastery for those novice drivers, newly licensed drivers and experienced drivers that are looking to continue improving their driving experience by participating in unfamiliar (or familiar) scenarios that may create some uncertainty or leave them with a lack of confidence.
Driving simulators are a great pre-cursor to the Stage 1 requirements of the graduated driver licensing system
Experiencing what it will feel like to be behind the wheel of a car, learning what the road looks like from the "driver's" seat and getting a sense of all the subtleties of driving is best experienced in a simulated environment. We encourage all our drivers to make their mistakes on our simulators so that they will appreciate the seriousness of driving.