Street Smarts Driver Education

Fantastic experience: I had driving for phobia for years and decided it was time to overcome it and work towards my license. Gary was my instructor and he was SO patient and calm. He even would gently remind me when I was too tensed up. Learning to relax behind the wheel came to me quickly. He took me down the roads that are most commonly used by the DOT test, which has a few speed limit changes and an awkward stop sign stop. Gary also gave me a detailed list of things that can instantly fail you: Hitting the curb. Not coming to a full, complete stop at the stop sign. Failing to use turn signals. Speeding. The DOT itself is somewhat vague about how the driving test goes, but having this knowledge ahead of time really made it easier to get over nerves the day of the test. These classes were worth every penny! I just went home with my license today. Thanks for helping me accomplish this big goal! -Adult Driving, 6-Hour Package, February 2025 -Des Moines Location

Negative experience: Our experience was several years ago so it may not be relevant to the current staffing. Our son was enrolled with Street Smarts and went through the entire program. He would come home after the on the road instruction and tell us that he didn't get to drive more than a few minutes because the other students needed more instruction. There was never any indication that he was having problems in class. He seemed to understand the content being taught. His actual drive times were not even close to 30 hours. We would then drive with him for more practice. He would drive with us and seemed to have a good grasp of driving and the laws. When we picked him up on the last day, the day of the final drive test he was destroyed because his instructor stopped the test after one mistake. Literally, told him to pull over get out and took over. No instruction or explanation why he had failed. He said everything had been going fine until that moment. The only thing she said was you must have a 100% to pass. No mistakes. He said the rest of the drive was really awkward and quiet. She refused to tell him what the reason for his failure was. I called the next day to ask what his mistake was and would he get a retake. The answer was no he would not get a retake or anymore instruction and they would have to get back to me because they did not have that instructors records for their particular students. Why don't they keep the records for all the students at the school. It took several weeks and many more calls for me to reach the instructor and was angry with me and very curt. She couldn't remember why he failed and said she would have to call me back when she found the test. She did not call me back and I finally got a hold of some supervisor who called me back and said he had pulled up to a stop sign behind a car stopped, but then proceeded to pull out with out stopping after the car in front had pulled out. I agreed that was a mistake but to outright fail someone. Especially, someone they were responsible for teaching such skills. I asked did he hit anyone or almost and she said no. I asked if he looked both ways and she couldn't remember. There were no debriefings, follow up instruction, or review. Just you fail you are done with the course. $400 down the drain. We ended up having to instruct him ourselves and take him to the DMV where he passed just fine. I wonder if this is typical for most schools. Lesson learned. We use Safetodriveiowa.com for parent taught drivers ed. $70

Fantastic experience: Amazing experience with smart street driving class, coming from different country is hard to get familiar with rules and regulations but instructor is so good, he help you with each and every lesson of driving, you just need good confidence to drive rest of it they help you. Great experience thank to help getting me my driving license.

Fantastic experience: bro my instructor mr Olu was so nice and something he said to me and the other girl fr stuck with me he said something like live life with alot of zest and grit and surround yourself with people who are good and i think about that sometimes even though he taught me like a month or two ago. and my parents really liked him. even though it was 5 stars i give him 10 stars

Negative experience: Recomendación busquen otra escuela. Se supone que está gente deben ser amables y cordiales y no lo son y lo otro es que si estás pagando un servicio imagino que es para enseñar y en la primera reunión me dijeron que la persona debe saber más o menos conducir para poder tomar el auto entonces cuál es la gracia deberían compartir conmigo el pago ya que tuve que darle clases a mi hija para que ella pudiera usas esta escuela. Es simple existen otras y a medida que ellos vean que tienen menos clientes les tocará corregir para volver a ganar gente. Mi hija está en Altoona pero la empresa es la misma. Todo esto te lo dicen después del pago y la última perla la escuela no te sirve para evadir el examen de manejo del DOT cuando llegamos al DOT supuestamente a convertir el permiso temporal en licencia de conducción hubo que hacer el exámenes de manejo entonces para que pague si tuve que darle clases a mi hija y además todo lo demás fue igual que cualquier cristiano. ES UNA ESTAFA TOTAL….