I "learned" how to drive via a mail in/online class plus parent in person course called "drivers ed in a box" (no joke lol). Circa 2005. I grew up in suburban Houston but drove a lot at our 60 acres out of town a good amount etc

Only reason I'm sharing is that I imagine programs like this have gotten increasingly popular the last 20ish years and maybe it's a requirement for them to put that on the car now?

I have also been increasingly aware that kids don't even do drivers ed and wait till 18 now? I mean what gives with that? Bewildering now. I hear about HS kids ubering around? So odd to me.

If it's a new scam for whatever reason they are capitalizing on. I'll give kudos to those crooks. Pretty novel idea

I took driver's ed the old-fashioned way -- first with simulators where you drove a fake car while watching a traffic movie, which we called "stimulators."

And then behind the wheel with three other kids and a coach.