The Driving Experience - Driving Simulator — Local services in Irvine

Automotive Simulation is an amazing tool, so useful racecar drivers practice on the simulator for tracks they have never been to and under some circumstances due to weather they end up starting the race with zero actual practice or qualifying, taking the green flag going 160+mph in to turn 1 and the way the car is set up for the race by the engineers and crew chief is all done on the simulator making the correct adjustments for long/short run performance, front and back balance over a fuel run, keeping the car balance and drivability out front in clean air and traffic. This should be taken advantage of much more than it is for new drivers, honestly they need to make it mandatory for Electric Bikes before it gets more out of control than it is. Some of these kids are not even teenagers and ride E-bikes with same or more power than a gas motorcycle with the right app or disconnection of 1 wire, addition of a little control box that's a few bux on Amazon removes the speed limiter and can make double or more available power without changing any actual hardware. Just software changes some as easy as a free app to connect via Bluetooth and make the changes to the factory settings. This should be a tool used much more to avoid tragic situations, kids have no idea what can happen at speeds they are dealing with, on top of that they almost always have a friend riding on the back that is a very dangerous battery pack not a seat. Just a week ago a vehicle made a U turn and was hit broadside by an E-bike with 2 kids on it going up hill at 60mph . This could be part of the road to a solution, kids can see how quickly you are in a bad situation that's hard to avoid from the perspective of a person driving a car trying to avoid an E-bike flying out of nowhere and understand how hard the car drivers perspective is already dealing with a lot and bikes coming out of nowhere at 15-25mph is hard to avoid and near impossible at 50-60mph even if stopping the vehicle changing direction at higher speed on a bike is harder and with 2 people double that mass it's similar to impaired simulation driving the reaction times and effort is much more demanding. After kids see how hard it is for cars to avoid them flying around a corner, flying from the sidewalk to the bike lane or in the actual car lanes (I've seen kids go off the sidewalk to the left hand turn lane in front of traffic no helmets then waiting in the turn lane like a motorcycle. It's getting worse everyday, a similar simulation as a E-bike rider to learn the rules of riding a bike safely, first we need some E-bike traffic laws and performance limiter certified and tamper proof for under aged unlicensed riders, requiring a training certificate from a place like this to understand the situation from both perspectives or else the first lesson they learn is most likely to come at a high cost with life altering injury if they're lucky. Also online or in person parent awareness classes and literature about what they're buying for their kids the reality of the technology only to purchase bikes with parental control app available or add already available live GPS units to monitor speed and location track. I don't know what it will take before we all wake up, I hope something like this can be fun and save lives even before they are able to drive a street vehicle at 16, they will return at 15 once again to prepare for the DMV Drivers test and being more prepared than others. I love the life saving potential using technology to save ourselves from technology. Just like anything else, Ai, it's how it's used and implemented in to society determines if it helps or hurts us all. Please speak up about this issue we have solutions that can be ready almost immediately....

I was referred to Lina by my psychologist who also works in the same building. Lina is an amazing and extremely friendly teacher that offers lots of emotional support and driving tips. Understanding that most of the students here have had some kind of trauma related to driving or have general learning obstacles, Lina pays lots of attention to the student’s response to the driving course and their internal conflict. It is great for students to see that they are not alone with the AI teacher in the screen, but also a much more real teacher physically next to them, as learning to drive is a practice which requires both the body and the mind. Lina is also flexible with scheduling. About the course itself: the course is pretty realistic, with a few glitches once in a while (which can range from funny to kinda scary — eg. seeing a pedestrian get hit). But I still like the course a lot, because it is very detailed, and gives me lots of important tips about how to expect hazard, spot it out, and avoid it (or at least pick the safest way to confront it). It is pretty interactive, and fun. I think the virtual class is in a way more difficult than real driving conditions, since it brings all the possible hazards in front of us. However, I would recommend not to think of the class as a game, because even if there is only a small chance that it happens in real life (for example, you might think “I’ll never need to drive in snow/rain/etc.”), it still might happen. And often times it is more likely to happen than we tend to think. Anyways, I really enjoyed my experience with Lina and with the course, and combining with my psychology sessions, I’m getting over my past trauma and getting more and more ready to confidently and safely drive in...

The Driving Experience Driving Simulator was everything I hoped it would be. I was looking for something safe to get my daughter from "no driving experience" to "a little bit of decent experience. " She started on the simulator on a Friday, and by Sunday morning I felt comfortable with her driving us home in a real car from a local high school. The simulator is a car driving in a virtual city in different driving conditions like rain, night driving, fog, off road, and it deals various driving "what if" scenario's. She even got to practice driving on freeways! I went to work on Monday and I feel my driving improved and I've driven from Los Angeles, California to Toronto, Canada and back.

After a weekend at The Driving Simulator, the following Monday I signed my daughter up for a real Behind The Wheel Training lesson. The virtual driving scenario calmed my fears about the safety of my daughter getting behind the wheel of a car. Thank you so much Lena for giving my daughter virtual driving lessons. Your driving knowledge is second to none.

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