Software for learning how to drive, OTHER than racing games?

[BoomerD]

I've been to a couple of crane certification classes where they had fairly high-tech (for the time) simulators that you had to pass before they allowed you to actually get in the seat for your testing. While the visuals were fairly realistic, you just don't get the "feel" of the crane. You don't feel it "grunt" when you get up on a heavy load, you can't feel the wind pushing you, you don't fell the rig when you approach your tipping point...all VERY important parts of running a crane. Driving a car is sort of the same. Simulation software doesn't give you the feel of turning, of acceleration or braking, nor that sickly feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you've fucked up and are gonna crash...

 

[BoomerD]

They are sleeper cabs. Duh!

Hell, ALL Cal-Trans vehicles are sleeper cabs...

What's big and orange and sleeps 6? Cal-Trans crew truck...

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

There's no software outside perhaps a real driving simulator that can properly "teach you to drive."
The ONLY way is to get behind the wheel and practice, practice, practice.

This. I never learned to drive stick (my family hasn't owned one since I was a baby), but even driving an automatic is nothing at all like playing a racing simulator on a computer. You need to feel the car in every way, from acceleration and braking to knowing where the wheels are on the road and where your hood/trunk ends.

 

[olds]

Hell, ALL Cal-Trans vehicles are sleeper cabs...

What's big and orange and sleeps 6? Cal-Trans crew truck...

I have always hated that joke.
Everyone knows they only sleep two, comfortably...