Rules of the Road: A Complete Driver's Ed Course | 
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Studio: Jumby Bay Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 8431
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 820658000524
EAN: 0820658000524
ASIN: B0000A5BW4
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: June 24, 2003
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Description
Get Street Smart! Rules of the Road introduces teens to safe, smart, and skullful driving. Know what to do in case of auto accident with the "In case of Emergency" bonus features. Interactive quizzes and tests. Topics cover driving basics, city and residential driving, highway driving, the driver's exam, safety tips, tips for hazardous conditions, drug and alcohol awareness.
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 Good Road Rule Review for TV learners July 16, 2008
A friend lent this to me as I was doing research for my audio CD for safe driving "Mind the Road" - Mind the Road: Waking Hypnosis for a Conscious Commute. Its not the best quality instructional video, but it captures the important points and is worth the price for those people who learn more by watching TV then reading books/manuals
 Excellent March 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My daughter failed the test to get her driving permit. I bought her this DVD and she watched it one day and passed the driving permit test the next day. Much cheaper then drivers ed.
Good for Novice and Teen drivers December 28, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The vedeo is helpfull especially for teen drivers who are going to be behind the wheel first.
Rules of the Road May 12, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
dvd driver education: good learning tool,current information, virtual driving puts things into perspective
 Video games are more useful for parallel parking July 2, 2006
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this DVD thinking that, among other things, it would help me with parallel parking for the purposes of the driver's test. The distributor's site claimed that the DVD explained parallel parking in "a few simple steps," and even mentioned that there was a 3D model that could be viewed from multiple angles. I am notorious for not having the best spatial judgment, and bought the disc assuming that it would offer some sort of fool-proof advice that I hadn't stumbled across so far.
These hopes, however, were quickly dashed when I actually watched the clip on parallel parking; in fact, my first reaction was something along the lines of "that's all?" The instructions expect the driver to be able to line up with the car in front of the parking space-- perfectly good advice, as long as there's a car to line up with. At my own local DMV office, there's literally nothing in front of the parallel parking space with which to line up, so that advice is rather futile-- and I would *almost* be willing to excuse this, were it not for the fact that the accompanying footage shows a DMV office with the very same arrangement.
Similarly, the distributor claimed that there was a "simple explanation" for which way to turn the wheel when parking on a hill. Simple, that is, if you can easily remember seemingly random directions by rote without getting them all mixed up; as is the case with a number of other explanations on this DVD, I would have found some elaboration on *why* the rules should be followed far more memorable than an unconnected bunch of easily confused rote facts.
But there are 3D models that might be helpful, right? Yes, if you're one of those sorts of people with reasonably good spatial skills that can work things out from an outside-the-car perspective. I would have much preferred to have at least one perspective showing the view from *within* the car, particularly during the parallel parking clip, so I could get just a vague idea of what a successful maneuver should look like from my own perspective.
I can't *completely* fault Jumby Bay for this release, however, because they did do something that seems to be quite a rarity on independent educational videos: namely, they actually considered the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students by offering a subtitle track. That alone is worthy of an extra star.
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