I had no idea there was even such a thing as a driving simulator.

I grew up on a farm and honestly, I was driving loaded 10 ton grain trucks at age 15. The instructor that picked me up knew the score. He pulled in the driveway, moved to the passenger seat, I got in, he said "get on the expressway and head south." That was the extent of the training the instructor gave me. By then of course I'd been driving pickups (manual transmission with a heavy clutch and 3 speed on the tree)for probably 3 years, and tractors (including on the roads, where a license isn't necessary for transporting farm equipment) since I was 9.