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That works when you can arrange the time and place of the car's nonfunctional episodes. The learning experiences are when you're driving the car and something fails and now you have to diagnose and kludge to get home. (Which used to be a regular part of driving: in one of John Steinbeck's novels, the characters had to stop, pull the head off the engine, pull the intake and exhaust valves out, and regrind the valve seats in a rest stop so they could keep driving.)