AARPReviews of aarp.com

Shame on AARP. The course will take the average person 9 hours to complete and not the six they advertise. Course is repetitive and much to long. Stay away, you will hate it.

Terrible customer service. I never got the gift card I paid for. Many messages back and forth only to be told that they are having computer problems. And they refused to contact me when they fixed them. I was told I would have to try again. I wasted a lot of time and resolved nothing.

It is remedial to the point if idiocy- we all know which is the gas/ brake pedal, to look behind the car when backing up, and driver slower in adverse conditions. Seriously. It moves at a glacial pace- hundreds of pages have 3-10 seconds of time at the end of just waiting to hit the "next" button. It is way more than 6 hours. So much redundancy that many times I looked to see if I accidently hit the reverse key. Irrelevent topics- we don't care who invented the white road lines or when traffic lights were created. If you are a brand new driver ( and let's face it, most of us utilizing the AARP link are NOT) then MAYBE the simplified babble might be instructional but the rest of us are light years past 80% of the information we are forced to sit through. You will question your sanity. Your butt will be tired of sitting in front of a screen for 8 hours. Waste of time, I'd give it negative stars if I could.

AARP driving course was a huge mistake to sign on… long n reaping. Waste of time and mental abuse!! Waste of my money… never again!!! What a nightmare!!!

Where to begin? 1) I am aware of the pattern of: I'll tell you what I am going to say. I'll say it. Then. I'll tell you what I said. It may be fine for kindergarteners, but insulting to adults. Get to the point. 2) Do NOT repeat so much and repeat it and repeat it in ongoing sections. 3) There is a TON of void time waiting at the end of each section. Often 10 or more seconds- for EVERY section. That adds up to a LOT of wasted time. Staying on an introductory page for 10 or more seconds is ridiculous. If someone needs that much time to process three lines of text, they should NOT be driving. 3) I don't need to know the history of driving, the car apps and devices to be a better driver. Stick to the point. 4) Perhaps there is a certain amount of teaching time required to gain accreditation, but a LOT of this material could be eliminated, and the program would not be less useful

This was a very general overview of car ownership for those over 50. It gives a number of tips and opinions, but no typically "defensive driving" training. Most of all I'd be concerned about accuracy, which is often debatable. Check out the following quotes from the course: "New Jersey: It is illegal to pull out into an intersection on a green light and wait for an opportunity to turn left." No, that's not true. It's possible it could be true in some states, but in none I've ever heard about. In New York only ONE car at a time--technically--may do this, but it's certainly not illegal to wait on green to turn. "Do not pass another car if there is a solid white or yellow line on your side of the center line or if there are double yellow lines, . . ." Definitely not accurate. We have many 4-lane highways across America with yellow double solid center lines, and you very definitely CAN generally use the second lane to pass a vehicle that's in the first lane! "If an intersection is congested . . . all vehicles should treat [the intersection] as a four-way stop." No! Only if it's a 4-way stop, or a broken traffic light, do you have to treat an intersection as a four-way stop. "Your speed of travel is one of the key items fully under your control." That's not so, since speed limits (for instance) could constrain you (or a breakdown, or a crash, or...). "New Jersey: When approaching a bicyclist, the driver must change lanes, safety and traffic conditions permitting, into a lane not adjacent to the cyclist when passing, if it is safe to do so, or allow 4 feet of space between the car and the cyclist." Jesus, you would need 3 straight ahead lanes to do the first command... even the middle lane would be adjacent to the cyclist... you'd need to move into a 3rd lane or an oncoming lane!! "Higher speeds result in more crashes . . ." If that were true, we'd have more crashes on highways than on urban roads. It's true in every country that there are fewer crashes per mile on highways than on slower roads.

A comment on the certificate # following completion of the AARP Smart Driver Online Course. The partial certificate number is... LvAFUCKWG Is this a bad IT joke or just an unlikely, bad coincidence? I am reluctant to provide the certificate # to my insurance company.

So boring and repetitive. Never ends. Longer than they said it would be. I would never take this course again.