Recommendations for Safe/Mature Driver Course?

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A_Fairly_Young_Old_Guy

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Does anyone have a recommendation for an online Safe/Mature Driver Course?

I'm unimpressed with AARP's Smart Driver Course, and am looking for an alternative.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
 

Just commenting on your "name." Was speaking with a friend yesterday who has worked in fundraising for decades. A recent appeal was aimed at the "Yodes." That's the reference made to a person on the young side of being old. I told her I loved the word and wanted to use it in a sentence. Now I have. Thanks!
 
Check with your insurance carrier. I am with State Farm. I took a course online, through their website. Had to take a quiz as proof I took the course. I get a 10% discount for 3 years. Took me less than 4 hours, at my own pace, and took a couple breaks.
 

Pepper said:
Just commenting on your "name." Was speaking with a friend yesterday who has worked in fundraising for decades. A recent appeal was aimed at the "Yodes." That's the reference made to a person on the young side of being old. I told her I loved the word and wanted to use it in a sentence. Now I have. Thanks!
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I hadn't heard the term, 'Yodes', before. Cool!
 
Marie5656 said:
Check with your insurance carrier. I am with State Farm. I took a course online, through their website. Had to take a quiz as proof I took the course. I get a 10% discount for 3 years. Took me less than 4 hours, at my own pace, and took a couple breaks.
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Thanks very much for the reply, Marie!

4 hrs is certainly a lot less than the bloated 8 hrs of the AARP course.

I don't have State Farm insurance, and the State Farm course is not included on my state's list of mature driver improvement programs (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vehindustry/ol/md_programs), which is my insurer's approved list of programs. So, unfortunately, it appears that your excellent suggestion will not work for me. Bummer!
 
DaveA said:
What is it that they teach you, exactly? I'm only 86 and have given it some thought for the future, when I get really old. 😄
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Basically safe driving tips, rules of the road. Reminders of different road signs, speed limits, driving in bad weather etc. I forget off hand.
 
My children will remove my car the second they feel I am not fit to drive, at my request. My late mother was driving for far too long and was a menace on the road. Eventually my siblings and I ensured her car was removed, as the eldest I took the blame for that. Until the day she kicked the bucket she kept demanding that we bought her a new car.
 

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