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Jim D.

California, United States

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1 Review by Jim

  • BrainHQ

1/4/21
Verified purchase

I got to access this for free via a senior driving program from AAA. At first I was having fun, but soon it got boring. Very boring. VERY B O O O O O O O O O RRRRRRRRRR I I I I I I NNNNNNNNN G G G G G.

Either you track tomatoes floating around in the air, or you try to remember the locations of two things flashed randomly here or there for a microsecond or two.

That's it. Over and over and over again. Did I say this was boring?

Somehow along the way, you get stars. Stars! I love stars, don't you?! If you finish a set of trials, you move to the next level once you get 10 stars! If you attain those 10 stars in the middle of a set, do you need to bother trying for more stars? I have no idea! They don't say! Ever! Do your extra stars carry over onto the next level? Who knows! Maybe even the programmers who designed this drivel don't even know themselves... they certainly don't explain it to anyone.

This is supposed to make me a better senior driver? The whole thing is so boring, the criteria for advancing to the next level so fuzzy, that I think the company is taking AAA for a ride. I just read that their contract was cancelled at the end of 2020, and so I have until March 31 or maybe May 15 or whenever to "finish" my training. NOT A WORD about how much I still have to do. NOT A WORD about whether I slip back in levels if I don't practice every day. I did a rough calculation, and discovered that in order to get my 4% insurance discount, I'd have to "work" for so many hours that it's the equivalent of paying me less than $1 an hour.

My advice? Certainly don't spend your OWN money on this nonsense. Complain to AAA that you can save more money than you would save with your 4% discount by finding a part-time job that pays more than $2 an hour instead of wasting time on this. This program to improve senior drivers' skills has zero hours of education about new traffic laws, zero hours of anything simulating real driving, zero hours of feedback about how to improve your driving... zero plus zero plus zero equals... zero.

Oh, and it's extremely boring. Also repetitive. You do the same things over and over again. Did I mention that?

Tip for consumers:
Don't waste your money, if you're paying yourself. Don't waste your time if AAA paid for it (as it did for me, I'm guessing, behind the scenes).

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