Timothy Rudon asked:


Defensive driving teaches safe driving techniques to drivers. At defensive driving classes students learn to overcome mistakes in driving techniques, learn to improve their driving skills; learn to make informed decisions and to anticipate situations while driving.

Defensive driving classes have been set up in every state by the government and police departments to make the world a safer place to live in. The need for speed can kill, it is important to teach driver discipline and safety rules. Defensive driving aims to reduce the risk of driving. Drivers must instinctively anticipate dangerous situations and avoid risks while driving vehicles in normal as well as adverse conditions. Defensive driving courses cover aspects like: emergency care, principles of safety, control of fear and emotions, on the spot decision making, quick reactions, fear, and so on.

More than 50,000 people in the US loose their lives due to road accidents. Accidents can be prevented by following simple rules. There are websites online that teach the rules that can help save lives. See http://www.roadtripamerica.com/DefensiveDriving/Drive-Safe-With-Uncle-Bob.htm .

The benefits of defensive driving classes are many and vary with each state.

1. Most states offer as incentive a reduction of points on your driver’s license following a driving violation ticket and offer the additional incentive of not increasing insurance rates.

2. In some states a defensive driving course would get at least 10% reduction is insurance rates for a period of 3-5 years. This being a considerable saving.

3. A defensive driving course will teach safe and accident free driving techniques.

4. The course will teach protection techniques and how to handle road rage and speeding.

5. The defensive driving course will teach safe driving techniques in bad weather and adverse conditions. The course will hone skills in highway driving, night driving, and extreme weather driving.

6. The course will inculcate critical safety issues and teach emergency action too.

7. By taking a defensive driving course you will not have to appear in court.

8. The driving violation charges will be dismissed and a fine will not be assessed.

9. Defensive driving classes create responsible citizens which mean children and families will remain protected.

10. Most important the defensive driving classes will improve driving skills, reiterate driving laws and rules and make better drivers of people.

A defensive driving class can even be taken virtually. States have set up defensive driving classes both online and offline to create a safe environment for citizens. Defensive driving teaches people to be responsible drivers and take all necessary precautions when seated behind the wheel of a car. It protects not just the driver but pedestrians, animals, and fellow commuters. It makes the roads safer.

Defensive driving saves lives.



Wendy

Bill Derrick asked:


When a driver has received a moving violation, the last thing on their mind is the quality of the material that they will be studying in their state approved online defensive driving course. They usually just want to get through traffic school as quickly and as easily as possible, so that they can get on with their lives and try to get that ticket dismissed.

One of the recent innovations that has come with the web is the online defensive driving course. Students take this course in place of the traditional classroom-taught traffic school class, and receive the same certificate of completion that the other students get, while working from the comfort of home.

There are several reasons why someone might choose to take an online defensive driving course rather than going to the classroom. First is the convenience of location. For some, the nearest traffic school is halfway across town. Online schools allow them to work from their computers, and the web-based providers give them the opportunity to go one better and work from any Internet-enabled computer. That means the student can do some of their coursework at home and some at the office, or at a university computer lab, the public library, or even on a laptop at the local coffee shop. Location is key for these students.

Others appreciate the convenience of time. Taking a state approved online defensive driving course, depending on where the student lives, can be an all-day process. But with the web providers, students are sometimes permitted not only to work at any time of the day or night, but also to come and go from the course as their schedule permits, without putting in a minimum duration in order for the class session to count. That means that if the phone rings, the student doesn’t lose the ten minutes they’ve already put in, nor do they need to ignore the call. It can be very handy, especially in today’s busy world!

An often-unseen benefit to taking traffic school online, though, is the convenience for the instructors. Traffic schools are constantly updating their material to include the latest laws and regulations, which can be numerous from one year to the next. Just recently, a texting-while-driving law went into effect in California. This law was not on the books last year, so every traffic school in the state needs to address the change.

For an old-style classroom course, this modification could mean change pages inserted into a printed handbook, getting the word out to each instructor, and hoping that the information is passed along to students. In an online course, one person can go in and make the change so that all students see it at once. This gives the online students an advantage over others, not only in having current information but in knowing the latest laws to obey once they are back out on the road. That, in turn, makes it less likely they’ll be pulled over and need to take, you guessed it, traffic school.



Maureen