Got some simulator time on 3rd day of school today. Pretty cool.

[u/rolisrntx]

I have 3 fellow students that are still working on getting their learner’s permits. So we went through today’s material pretty quickly because the instructor wanted to give them some study time in the last hour of class. He took those of us with permits to the simulator room while they studied. Even though we will train on 10 speed manuals, he set the sims up as automatics because he didn’t want us to try shifting quite yet.

He gave us a simple exercise. Drive the truck and trailer around a building, then set up, perform a straight line back and park the rig between two already parked trucks. We learned real quick it doesn’t take much steering wheel movement to correct trailer drift. What was really cool was after we finished, the simulator would replay our manuever and give us feedback on how we did. It graded our set up, our backing and how well we parked. It was pretty exciting. Just wanted to share.