9th graders can't legally drive, let along drink.

But they now know what it's like to get behind the wheel impaired.

Dalton police set up an obstacle course in the high school parking lot.

Students maneuvered wearing goggles that simulate the visual restrictions of being drunk.

Cones that were set up represent the edge of the road. If you knock one over, you're in the ditch causing damage to your car, or worse.

For Molly Martin, the experience proved disconcerting.

She says she knew what she wanted to do, but couldn't make it happen.

"You saw completely double cause of the way, there were little circles on it and it made it so the angles, so half of what you saw was blurry and half was the same thing over again."

The breakdown in motor skills surprised some students.

Brandon Painter thought he'd be able to master the course by going slowly.

"I thought it would just impair my vision but it made me dizzy and everything else, so it was harder than I thought it was going to be."

Despite different driving techniques, one student after another knocked over the cones.

Officer Zahn says if the class convinces just one student not to drink and drive, he did his job.