My 17-year-old took this Street Survival driving skills course this weekend and I recommend it! They learn how to handle their own car, how it feels to stop fast, corner fast, etc. You can see the kids level up their driving throughout the day.
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I joined my daughter at this earlier this year and I also recommend it. Great skills under her belt now that are much harder, if not impossible, to acquire without a closed course.
I've seen videos of this course and I'm jealous I never got to take my kid (or myself) on it. We kind of learned the same things through trial and error as teens (about half of everyone I knew in high school crashed their first car)
Shout out to Matt for being the person who recommended this course to us and to Meg for booking it.
As the old cliche goes, all driver's ed teaches is how to drive well enough to pass a road test, not to actually drive.
Anyway, related to the post: a couple of racing schools (last I know) offer advanced driver's ed course as described in the post.
As a teenager (1980's) it was common during the winter to take our cars out on the ice on Lake Winnebago here in Wisconsin. Doing dounts on a huge frozen lake was a blast and taught us how to induce a spin and how to counteract a spin. It was also an eye opening experiencing how braking and steering work (or don't) on ice. Lots of our cars were pre-antilock brakes, so you learned how to modulate your brakes to prevent skidding. I think it should have been required for everyone who lives in states that have regular snow accumulation.
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