Taking online defensive driving

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:04 pm

Gotta get that insurance payment down!

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:37 pm

What insurance company do you have? Mine doesn't offer anything like that...

XMEN Ravok_99 · Post by **XMEN Ravok_99** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:09 pm

Do you get to play Need For Speed to qualify?? =)

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:54 pm

:lol

My insurance company is State Farm. But it's not so much the company, but the state, I think, that makes the deduction (reduction?) possible.

XMENPorsche · Post by **XMENPorsche** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:15 am

Gotta get that insurance payment down

Yeah.... sure. So, how fast WERE you going? :lol

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:13 pm

Now, this is funny, particularly in light of Porshe's comment - ready for part II?

As reported, I did the defensive driving thing on Dec. 31, for the insurance discount. Finished it then, got the certificate in the mail just this week.

Tonight, on the way home, I get a ticket for doing 47 in a 35 just a couple blocks fom home. Didn't think I was going that fast, but oh well. So, now I'll have to take DD again to nuke the ticket!

I haven't been pulled over in ten years or more.

*whoops. I can't take DD to dismiss the ticket because I just took it! Now I have to plead for a deferred dismissal. And, it's $137*

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:23 pm

We don't have anything like that in MN. No DD, no getting tickets nuked, nothing. You get a ticket, you get the points on your insurance... MN sucks. But then again, I haven't been pulled over in 4 or so years, so I'm not concerned.

BlackRider · Post by **BlackRider** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:38 pm

I've only been pulled over once, and never ticketed. I forgot to turn my headlights on after refueling and got maybe 30 feet down the street before I saw red and blue lights behind me. =)

Its kinda funny though... other than that one incident... when I'm doing stupid stuff on the roads the cops don't show up until after I'm done. *shrug* But then again I hardly ever even speed. +5 Is way too fast for me. :\ On the otherhand the dumb stuff I've done is more than enough to make up for my usual pokey driving. For example... hitting 110-115 mph on a two lane backroad (and I was the slow car in the convoy), intentionally spinning my car down a public road, 180s and 360s in parking lots, and four wheel drifting in 3 inches of snow.

So 99.3% of the time I'm a good driver but that 0.7% could get me in trouble.

But my record's clean....

(but due to age and sports car combo insurance is $1900/yr. on one car and $150/yr. on my second car)

RudeJelly · Post by **RudeJelly** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:47 pm

I went to txdriving.com and took the course. I had to wait at least a year in between. I almost wonder if going to an actual Saturday driving school would have been easier.

Taking online defensive driving

Taking online defensive driving

When I lived in Texas, I did it twice