New Experience: Defensive Driving
I may or may not have received a speeding ticket within the last month or so, but if I had I'm sure the officer would have very pleasant and recommend I take a defensive driving course instead of paying the fine and taking points off my license.
A very wise recommendation, that.
Options for taking defensive driving courses (not limited to Alaska, I gather) are as follows:
1// Sit in a stuffy windowless room on a sunny and warm spring Sunday for eight (8) hours and sixty dollars ($60) listening to an old guy read monotonously from a binder of prepared materials when you could be running errands in flipflops and sunglasses and no jacket because it's 50 degrees outside and sunny and this time last week it was snowing buckets; or
2// Pace through the material online for twenty-five dollars ($25) a little bit here and a little bit there, while studying Economics, preparing dinner, painting your fingernails, throwing the ball for the dog, and constantly refreshing twitter, and then run to the nearest Kinko's to take a proctored test in 5 minutes.
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Sadly, the online option isn't always available. The county I live in sends you to Adult Detention (see #1). No online learning, no Comedy Traffic School, not even an option to pay good money to actually take a real Defensive Driving course.
Just you and 25 other scofflaws gathered together watching film strips. (And just to prove it's Adult Detention, they cut power exactly at 2pm when everyone gets to go home.)
I thought it was a state decision whether to have the online option. There were only a handful of verified locations (physical or virtual) that our DMV allowed.