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Emily A.

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  • California Driver Ed Course

12/5/21
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This website is outdated, not only visually, but statistically. Their statistics are from 2009 and incorrect, as of today. This course is the reason I have still not gotten my permit. I got it 11 months ago and just finished it today, because it is so damn boring and just an awful, painful, stressful experience. When we purchased this course, we were under false pretenses that it had 4.7 out of 5 stars (the reviews they link must be fake).
Anyways, the text fades in slower than I'm reading it, and each page takes a decade to load. There are really crappy transitions for EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMNED LINE OF TEXT; fading in, spinning, etc. If you go to the next page or go back, you have to re-watch every transition. There is no option to skip the stupid transitions.
The lesson itself is tedious, with an entire like 5-hour unit of just straight-up traffic law codes straight from the book (e.g. §******* The Department of Transportation shall, after consultation with local agencies and public hearings…).
There are like 3 diagram, images, or videos throughout the whole course, and some of them don't even show up or play (they will just say "see image", and there is nothing there, or the image fades in after like 5 minutes). If you miss something in the video or image, you have to go to the next page and back again to rewatch the entire thing, transitions and all, and hope you don't miss it this time.
Each page has a time limit before you can move on, ranging from 20 minutes to 2.5 hours. I read at a normal pace and end up waiting an hour to go to the quiz. Not to mention if I do something else, there is this security question every 10 minutes that you have 10 SECONDS to answer and if you get it wrong 3 times you are permanently locked out of your account that you paid for.
I ended up just not reading it and setting timers for me to move my mouse around or whatever, to get through the course, and take the final test. The questions are ridiculously easy and nothing like the actual test question. I got a 90% on the final exam with only actually reading the first 10 units (of 15).
This site has long been abandoned and is a borderline scam. The reviews are fake, the costs are not fully advertised up-front, and the material is outdated.
If I had taken a different course, I'd have my license by now. This course is a waste of time, money, and frustration.

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