DRIVING SCHOOL
Our goal is to provide driver-training classes throughout San Diego County including all of South County as well. We currently serve East County Our service area is constantly expanding and is limited mostly by our stringent requirements for our instructors.
DRIVER EDUCATION
Driver education is the textbook portion of learning to drive. Students learn the "rules of the road", traffic signs, speed limits, the California Vehicle Code and more. Driver education must be completed before you can begin driver training. There is no minimum age for driver education but most students take it while they are high school freshmen. We recommend choosing a Driving School that is licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. When you pass the course, we will give you a DMV form called a "Certificate of Completion of Driver Education. (OL 237)
DRIVER TRAINING:
California requires a minimum of 6 hours of behind the wheel driver training lesson for new drivers under the age of 18. The California law that was established as of July 1st 1998 also requires every teenager to drive the fifty hours (50) with a family member or a friend that is at least twenty-five (25) years of age or older and with a valid California driver license. Forty (40) hours are to be done during a daytime driving and minimum of ten (10) hours to be done after dark hours or night time.
Our DMV-licensed instructors will take you out three two-hour lessons. And teaches the student different aspects of driving.
Driver Training is the "behind the wheel" portion of learning to drive. Students spend a minimum of six hours with a DMV licensed driving instructor in a car equipped with dual brakes for safety. Once you have completed driver Ed, you will need to enroll in a driver-training program. You will receive a DMV form called a Certificate of Enrollment in Driver Training." (OL 392)
You will need to take the Certificate of Enrollment and the driver Ed certificate to your local DMV office to obtain your California learners permit. When you are at DMV, you will take the standard DMV driver's license exam. Upon passage, you will be issued your learners permit. The permit will not be valid until you have completed your first driver training lesson with your instructor.
The first lesson is driving on surface streets to cover the basic controls of the car and how to operate it safely. Also pulling over to the side of the road and backing up on a straight line for about three-car length. Along with making a U-turn on narrow streets also known as turn-A-bout and possibly parallel parking.
The second lesson is preferably after dark and expands upon the principles of the first lesson. Along with reviewing parallel parking and adding on the uphill and down hill parking with and without the curb. This lesson also goes through the Narrow Mountain driving and freeway
The third lesson is primarily reviewing all aspects of driving: A simultaneous DMV practice drive test.
Note about bad weather: Driving in bad weather for the first time is never fun but it is better to do it with a trained driving instructor in a car equipped with dual brake pedals. We cannot control the weather but we think of it as an opportunity to teach extra skills if it is raining or foggy on the day of one of your lessons. We can teach some things that everyone should learn -- even in sunny California.
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You must have your learners permit with you every time you drive, the faxed copy or a photo-copy is not valid, NO EXCEPTIONS.