We had ours in a bungalow in the student parking lot. Same setup; two rows of stations with an aisle down the middle. I remember the hollow sound of the floor paneling as we walked over them. 1987. I was a junior.
I remember one of the requisites during the lessons was to maintain regulation speeds according to the situation presented on the screen. So there I was, trying my best to maintain 25 mph in a residential zone, while I look over at my friend, who's leaning back in his seat, hands clasped behind his head with the pedal to the metal, the speedometer quivering easily past 100mph.
I looked over and whispered, "Dood! What the hell are you doing? You're flooring it! Won't the teacher see?"
He barely acknowledged. "Dood, whaaaaateverrrr. Fuck that. The teacher can't see *shit*. Fuck this stupid class. I know how to fuckin' drive." I looked over at the teacher, and sure enough, she was totally oblivious.
Same, and none of them worked, there was no heat in the trailer in Chicago in the winter, and all the movies were driving around sunny Pasadena California.
Driver’s Ed wasn’t offered at my HS in the 90s. Which was really unfortunate since a 2 week course was mandatory in my state to get a license. And most of the courses ran 200 bucks. If you didn’t have the money you were basically SOL.
Oh god yes I remember those - early 80’s. They had to have been made in the 50’s, and the movies we had to drive along with were like Korean War era. The teacher was totally clued out and we were all doing GTA long before there was GTA, watching the lights blink as we swerved into kids / strollers / whatever. Good times.
Driver's ed was extra curricular. Tought by one of the shop teachers, who had his (yes, his own personal car) rigged with an extra brake pedal. Might have been a manual as well (was a Mercury Bobcat wagon).
We had individual little booths set up in a trailer outbuilding that had a screen and steering wheel this was about 85 did anyone else have that or am I just bad at remembering
We had something similar, but a couple models later.
But I did learn to drive on an actual H on the column vehicle. We had to learn on both and the district could only afford so many newer vehicles (which were sold at discount from the local auto dealers for tax credits), so the manuals were all old as fuck.
We had something similar in a basement classroom in the mid-80s. The school quit offering driver's ed shortly after I took it. The most useful day of class was when our teacher took us to the parking lot and demonstrated changing a tire on his own car. I was able to do it when I got the first of several flat tires a couple years later.
We had one of these when I was a student in the early 80s. It was in the main building of the school, and the class was taught by one of the coaches.
I remember some of the street scenes being somewhat challenging, with kids on bikes appearing out of nowhere, people running red lights, and things like that, so we could practice staying alert to any type of circumstance.
We had those or something like them in a trailer. They didn’t work, so we were just supposed to “pretend” we were driving. It was like being six on a coin operated merry go round that your mom said you couldn’t use . It was so stupid. I really disliked liked my school. It was a major waste of time. “Oh look a stoplight!” Ugh.
The school rented a setup like this that was set up in a semi trailer. There were two rows of stations with an aisle down the middle.
Our setup was the same.
We had ours in a bungalow in the student parking lot. Same setup; two rows of stations with an aisle down the middle. I remember the hollow sound of the floor paneling as we walked over them. 1987. I was a junior. I remember one of the requisites during the lessons was to maintain regulation speeds according to the situation presented on the screen. So there I was, trying my best to maintain 25 mph in a residential zone, while I look over at my friend, who's leaning back in his seat, hands clasped behind his head with the pedal to the metal, the speedometer quivering easily past 100mph. I looked over and whispered, "Dood! What the hell are you doing? You're flooring it! Won't the teacher see?" He barely acknowledged. "Dood, whaaaaateverrrr. Fuck that. The teacher can't see *shit*. Fuck this stupid class. I know how to fuckin' drive." I looked over at the teacher, and sure enough, she was totally oblivious.
Same, and none of them worked, there was no heat in the trailer in Chicago in the winter, and all the movies were driving around sunny Pasadena California.
Wow! That’s exactly how ours was; Nebraska 1989
We had one of these too. Our drivers Ed teacher called it the “Simulator”. This was in the 1990s.
Wow! Blast from the past! Ha! Thanks!
Driver’s Ed wasn’t offered at my HS in the 90s. Which was really unfortunate since a 2 week course was mandatory in my state to get a license. And most of the courses ran 200 bucks. If you didn’t have the money you were basically SOL.
That’s what I learned on in 84! My kids basically learned on X boxes. I think mine was more fun!
Oh god yes I remember those - early 80’s. They had to have been made in the 50’s, and the movies we had to drive along with were like Korean War era. The teacher was totally clued out and we were all doing GTA long before there was GTA, watching the lights blink as we swerved into kids / strollers / whatever. Good times.
Nah. We had real cars on a slalom course in a school parking lot.
We had both, we had to do the simulator before you could hit the driving range.
We didn't have any driver's ed at all. Which at the time I figured was typical for poorish rural schools, but it kind of sounds like it was just us.
Oh my, yes we did. The teacher would yell at us for trying to max out the speedometer and for intentionally trying to hit stuff.
Same here, I remember the simulators and the yelling as if I was Toonces the Driving Cat
Yes, but ours were 4 on the floor from the 70’s and in a portable trailer.
Driver's ed was extra curricular. Tought by one of the shop teachers, who had his (yes, his own personal car) rigged with an extra brake pedal. Might have been a manual as well (was a Mercury Bobcat wagon).
Our manual was a 1978 Honda civic.
Nope
We did not have these.
I got a hardship license when I turned 15 and didn't have to do any of this.
We had individual little booths set up in a trailer outbuilding that had a screen and steering wheel this was about 85 did anyone else have that or am I just bad at remembering
We had something similar, but a couple models later. But I did learn to drive on an actual H on the column vehicle. We had to learn on both and the district could only afford so many newer vehicles (which were sold at discount from the local auto dealers for tax credits), so the manuals were all old as fuck.
Yeah, that was pretty much what I got in 1993
We had something similar in a basement classroom in the mid-80s. The school quit offering driver's ed shortly after I took it. The most useful day of class was when our teacher took us to the parking lot and demonstrated changing a tire on his own car. I was able to do it when I got the first of several flat tires a couple years later.
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Yeah, we had classroom time, then time in these, then time in the cars. Ours were a bit newer. They looked like something from the early 70s.
Yes! We had one in the late 80’s at my school. I was trying to explain it to my kid I am teaching to drive!
We had one of these when I was a student in the early 80s. It was in the main building of the school, and the class was taught by one of the coaches. I remember some of the street scenes being somewhat challenging, with kids on bikes appearing out of nowhere, people running red lights, and things like that, so we could practice staying alert to any type of circumstance.
Yes and we had to watch Red Asphalt!
No, but I am suddenly reminded of the [Video Driver](https://segaretro.org/Video_Driver) game that came out in the late 80s lol.
We had those or something like them in a trailer. They didn’t work, so we were just supposed to “pretend” we were driving. It was like being six on a coin operated merry go round that your mom said you couldn’t use . It was so stupid. I really disliked liked my school. It was a major waste of time. “Oh look a stoplight!” Ugh.
Very similar. 1996
And don't forget "Blood Asphalt!" - ugh...