The video game Grand Theft Auto allows players to steal vehicles, blow up factories and race monster trucks. That all sounds exciting, but Korey Batey, a driving instructor in Detroit, has been using the game to show teenagers how to parallel park.

“Now we turn that wheel to the left, just like that, and back it up nice and easy,” Batey, 37, says in a TikTok video of himself guiding a black sedan into a tight parking spot. In another, he traverses the game’s roadways to point out the difference between stop and yield signs.

A few decades ago, a driver’s license was just about the most exciting thing you could offer a teenager. That little card offered a tantalizing taste of freedom.…