Ohio-based Grange Insurance is developing a new driver training app which can turn any adult 21 years and older into an untrained and uncertified, but still allegedly capable, driving instructor. And the Ohio legislature is rolling out the red carpet for the app to become a legal replacement for time in a car with a real instructor. As it stands, students have to spend eight hours of in-car instruction, and the instructor providing those lessons has to have accumulated 60 hours of training on the process. If that already-dismal driver education system were to be replaced by an application on the don’t-be-alone-with-your-thoughts rectangle, I have some concerns.
