Driving Study Car Move

After poring over a website entitled driving schools uk for hours, I was willing to admit that I simply couldn't afford driving lessons. The public schools couldn't afford the insurance rates for hiring a driving instructor, and finding a private instructor was proving to be more expensive than I could afford. I understood why; the same insurance issues that prevented schools from taking on the responsibility of driver education were driving up the prices of private instruction as well.

I tried to persuade my father to be my driving instructor, but he too was fearful of a sudden, precipitous increase in his insurance rates. It seemed he was not confident in my ability as a driver, and in fact he suggested it was possible I might destroy both the car and the house in an attempt to learn.

So, private schools were out. There was one final possibility. I had seen advertised a computer program that purported to be able to teach anyone to drive. "So simple a child could do it," its adverts proclaimed. It wasn't too expensive, so I decided to give it a try.

It arrived in the mail, an innocent looking little disk and a steering-shaped joystick. I put it into my computer, and immediately a facsimile theory test came up on the screen. I answered all the questions and passed it handily. Then came the driving practice test. But it was not like any practice test I'd ever taken before.

The road ahead was dotted with potholes, and there were cars all over the road. I weaved carefully through the initial onslaught, avoiding the potholes as best I could. Children ran heedlessly in front of the car, testing the brake button on the joystick. I tried to stop completely, but the program didn't allow for that. As the course went on and on, I began muttering under my breath, sure that I would end up killing someone.

At last the program let me coast to a stop. I checked my score; seventy percent. Not perfect, but not too bad. Then I heard my father clear his throat behind me.

"That's the stupidest way to learn to drive I've ever seen. If you're resorting to video games to teach you to drive, I guess I'll chip in for driving lessons."

So the computer program didn't teach me to drive, but it did accomplish its intended purpose after all.