Defensive Driving - What Are The Choices?

At some point in our driving years I suspect most all of us have to take defensive driving, whether to get rid of a ticket or maybe to just lower our insurance. For many years you only had one option, traffic school. But times and the options have changed.

Traffic school used to consist of getting up early on a Saturday morning or spending two nights during the week sitting in a classroom, listening to a instructor speak in a monotone voice and watching old 16mm films with 1950’s cars and actors explaining the right and wrong way to drive a car. Although that option is probably available if you look for it, these days defensive driving class has gone high tech.

So what are the choices?

* - Traffic school with a twist: Some of the options you can choose from if you’re looking for an in-class experience is humorous traffic school, traffic school with a meal, juggling and magic defensive driving classes.

* - Online defensive driving: Yes the power of the Internet has fueled the growth of online defensive driving. Taking the course online can have its drawbacks, especially if you don’t have broadband access.

* - DVD or VHS defensive driving: You can rent these at your local video store and now at least one school, is offering customers the ability to order the course online, have it delivered to their door and then keep the dvd or vhs. That’s right, no returns so of course that means no late fees.

So what's right for you? Well, this article can't answer that question but you can. You need to consider your schedule, how quickly your court date is coming, how important taking a class alone or with people is to you and maybe even what it takes to keep your head into it.

With these additional choices, taking defensive driving class should no longer be as big of an inconvenience since with two of the choices you can take them around your schedule and even in your underwear if you want.

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Beat that speeding ticket

Speeding tickets are a safety measure taken for safe driving. Your fast speed may prove to be faster for another person on the road to final upliftment. This may even be allotted to you. Speeding tickets are for saving lives.
Are there any strategies for avoiding speeding tickets? How can one take care of this embarrassing situation? There are some ways you can avoid being caught and issued the speeding ticket.

First and foremost thing to consider is to look at the hiding places. Where do police locate themselves to catch the offenders? These are usually behind trees, rocks or on the other side of the hill. You may not know that a patrol vehicle is exactly in front of a truck you are trying to overtake. Ramps are another favorite pace for patrol police to keep an eye. Be careful at the spots where you are unable to see the other side of the road. This is the most suspect place. You are trying to overtake a truck going at the legal speed. Naturally, you will have step the gas to overtake it. This may be a trap for you. You may be intercepted by a police patrol. Another tendency is to switch to the wrong lane to overtake a speeding vehicle. This is a sure shot formula for getting caught.

Although you can't do much about the car color, however a bright color car draws more attention than a run of the mill color. Try to have a normal color car which doesn't draw that extra special attention from the police.
There is another trick called rabbit chase. A rabbit is the car which has overtaken you beyond the legal speed. Follow that car keeping respectable distance with close attention on your rear view mirror. The radar equipment will first spot the rabbit car, and you are saved. However, if the patrol police car has spotted the rabbit car, they may have started chasing the car.

If you are wise enough, your observation in the rear view mirror will tell you to speed down a little. The patrol car will overtake you and catch the rabbit. If you are not wise enough, the probability id that the rabbit will go to jungle and you will be dealing with another piece of speeding ticket.Never follow a pattern on lane driving. Try to keep as much on the right side as possible. If you are snaking through the traffic, you are likely to be spotted easily, and you will be entitled for speeding and reckless driving.

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