lol, when I finally got mine (in like '99, although I'd been driving since 14), I went through an instructor company (lerners) which is easier. All I had to do was go in, tell them I know how to drive and they said okay and told me to come on a date and "everything will be ready" ... they put us all in a Liteace and with the "RMV dude" basically each person drove around in circles for a while and then we had to go "stand under that tree over there" until our Lerner guy, "spoke" to the "RMV dude" ... ofcourse, that didn't happen 'cos it was SL ofcourse. Don't know how it is now.