iDriveSafely

I am currently writing this at 11:00 at night and I am still in awe of what had happened. So much so that I took to this site for the first time solely to vent my rather justified frustration. Now, the program itself has a very nice format and I don't really have a problem with the content thereof as it seems to be pretty up to date as far as I can tell. But what truly made my blood boil is the unholy voice verification system. The voice verification is so bad that it ruins the entire program. The way this program works (or should I say doesn't work) is that it takes a sample of your speech and it uses this example to refer to in the other voice verifications during each section (which there's a ton of them). The program will test your voice very frequently but a big problem is that the system is very sensitive and a minor difference between your voice in the future (which is destined to happen being how fatigued you'll be) and your sample will ask you to try again, which you have 3 opportunities to emulate it correctly. And the kicker is that if you fail the voice verification process more than 3 times with each of three attempts not registering (which is very easy to do as it does a piss-poor job of recording your voice), it will force you to repeat the entire course again form square 1. I spent god knows how many hours today slogging through this stinker only to fail and have to repeat the entire course because the crappy voice system doesn't work. I was so afraid of this happening too as it states the threat to make you repeat on every verification screen. I took the precautions of turning off anything in my house that would make any kind of noise during it and even then with all my effort, I still got screwed. All that work meant nothing in the end. A way to describe it to those who haven't personally experienced it is imagine fighting with Siri to get her to spell a word correctly but with a real consequence of having to sit through a horribly boring 10 hour presentation if you fail to get Siri to spell a word correctly in a given amount of attempts. It was a horrible sight to behold to open up the program again to see a screen of 8 completed chapters to the very beginning again. Please, save yourself the aggravation and avoid this program like the plague.

More than half of the test questions were not covered on the course. I am not a very happy camper!