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A method of teaching a pupil to drive which includes the use of a tethered automobile having its wheels resting on rollers which enables the wheels to rotate and be steered and the gears to be shifted without movement of the automobile. The pupil is instructed to perform steering movements and gear shifting movements coordinated with movement of the automobile accelerator to learn to relate the driving force applied to the automobile front wheels to the steering movements. The pupil is then transferred to an untethered automobile which is free for driving movement along the ground and is instructed to drive the untethered automobile utilizing the coordinated steering and gear shifting movements learned in the tethered automobile. The untethered automobile may be a mini-car which can be driven around a mini-range which incorporates traffic features corresponding to those encountered in normal driving situations.
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