Funny Bone Defensive Driving

Instructor Marques Stewart did a great job – funny, interesting, entertaining. A good experience. Texas Land and Cattle provided a comfy room and good eats. Marques’ Scarface impersonation pushed it over the top!

Great class enjoyed my instructor total riot… makes a bad experience a bit better. Thanks for still offering classes vs online… get it done and don’t procrastinate or if you have procrastinated this is how you get it done :)

Abort!!! I recently received my first speeding ticket in about 10 years. I chose this site to do so. The lady is rather boring and the comedy (questionable to label it as comedy) is cheesy at best. What really bothers me is that I’ve had to re-​watch the same videos repeatedly because the site logs me out at random times. I’m sitting here watching and it, not starting and leaving it. It’s really aggravating. I’ll use a different one should I have to do this again.

I’m taking the online course to excuse a speeding ticket. I expected it to be funnier and more entertaining, with demonstrative skits by a comedy troupe. It’s just a very animated woman, Megan, in front of a green screen who matter-​of-​factly speaks about safe driving procedures and presents a few dated (besides one about texting) short films from different sources. The course is very informative and makes me rethink some of my driving habits. I just thought it was going to be more fun and engaging to watch.
It took me 3 days to take the course, but that’s just because I didn’t have a lot of time to do it until the weekend. I got through chapters 3 – 9 in a few hours on a Saturday, so can definitely get it done in a day if you have about 6 – 8 hours free.
After watching all the videos, you have to make over 70% correct answers on an untimed 20 question comprehensive quiz to pass the course. You can log out and in during the quiz. You have 3 chances to pass the quiz. If you fail after 3 chances, you have to reorder and retake the entire course. The quiz questions are pretty common sense questions, but you have time to research it if you can’t remember or don’t know. Make sure to read everything carefully, including the answers. I answered too quick on one and got it wrong because answer D was «Both answer A and B.»
The course is very thorough and informative, but it’s also boring at times and I find myself zoning out and then getting surprised and flustered when a question comes up. I fell asleep during a 20 minute video 2 times and had to rewatch. If your computer shuts off for some reason you have to rewatch the entire video over. I don’t like how some videos are split in two, but I guess that helps with the having to rewatch the entire video problem.
There’s 9 chapters with varied subtopics. In every chapter there’s a timed surprise question to validate your identity. It’s handy to have your insurance info, vin number, license, and registration info handy for when these questions come up. If you miss 4 answers you’re locked out. After every film there’s an easy untimed question about what it was about.
As far as the humor, it’s pretty tame and at times annoying because I’m totally aware of how flat the jokes are and how they’re eating up time when we could just be getting on with the program. Instead of incorporating humor into the lectures, the instructor goes off on unrelated trying-​too-​hard tangents and then some uptight angry man off screen yells at her. It’s not my taste of humor. Maybe others find it funny, but I think they could have thought up a more effective and funny way to present the course. The one thing I did find funny was her pronunciation of «rural.»
I do think she’s a good speaker, though. I’d probably appreciate her approach a lot more if I didn’t come in to this expecting the course to be funny. I will admit I am a snob when it comes to what makes me laugh. (My ideal hosts for this course would have been equivalent to the Kids in the Hall, or the cast from The IT Crowd.)
Despite the lack of funny jokes, the course got the job done for just $ 25 (minimum amount by Texas law to be accepted for a driver safety course) so I guess that’s the most I can ask for.

AWFUL TECHNICAL PROBLEMS!
So, Texas law requires that you watch 6 hours worth of videos. There are a series of videos that you watch/​click thru etc.
Close to four of the videos froze up and I had to refresh/​log back in, which meant I had to RESTART these videos. One of them was a 21-​minute video that froze three times, when it had 3 or 4 minutes left. This did it on 2 different browsers.
It finally went through on Safari, although the pic skipped, then another video did the same thing. I did not have any other connectivity issues with any other sites etc, so I know it was not my connection.
Extremely frustrating. Took and additional TWO HOURS to complete because of this.
Use some other school.

The online was awful. Really easy until I needed assistance. I tried emailing, no response. Next day try live chat, no response, try calling, wait on hold for over 21 minutes just to be talked to disrespectfully by some smug girl.

I am reviewing the online driving course. I recently took it to excuse a traffic ticket. It was my first time doing an online class, and I thought it was easy and even kind of silly at times (funny). I actually liked a couple of the videos and learned something new — I thought the video about texting and driving would be very helpful for teens so I hope it helps other drivers. Got through it with a couple of weekends and then ordered the expedited certificate! Easy peazy!

It’s defensive driving — might as well be somewhat enjoyable.
The food was actually pretty good and there was a really good selection. I had the chicken sandwich with bacon (and they have Pepsi, which is a plus in my book!). You can drink soda all day for $ 2.
Collin was pretty funny. I enjoyed (as much as one can enjoy spending a Saturday in defensive driving) Collin.
If you have to go, might as well laugh it up a bit.
Take this one.