In Germany we still see often these kind of CD-i players for sale that include a scanner. It is a Denso BCS5040 barcode scanner for Philips CD-i driving school applications. In Germany, publisher Vogel made several yearly editions of 'Fahren Lernen', they actually still do nowadays. Between 2001-2009, they offered an interactive edition with a CD-i and a scanner. The scanner was able to read the barcodes that were printed in the accompanying book. In this way the disc knew which traffic situation you were looking at and which task you were doing during your theory lessons. These German editions were at least made until 2009.
In The Netherlands we had a similar kind of effort. cdifan tells us a bit about it: "Lots of these where used by driving schools in Germany, with the barcode scanner used to bring up traffic situations from a book. A similar professional product by SPC Vision was also used in the Netherlands by lots of driving schools. Did you know that "CBR", the official Dutch institutions for admitting driving tests, for many years used a CD-i system from SPC Vision for their theory exams? This was a spinoff (but heavily rearchitected for security) of the driving school product, replaced by a newer system using a PC DVD-ROM system around 2001, long after CD-i was "officially" dead. Many millions of Dutch people have thus unwittingly used CD-i! The Dutch product was published by Veka Best, but they have shifted to an online system since (after many years with the PC DVD-ROM successor system)."
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