AUSTIN DEFENSIVE DRIVING

Did you get a ticket in Austin and need to take a defensive driving course? Our Internet courses are approved for ticket dismissal and insurance discount by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

The Traffic101.com defensive driving course for Texas is a 6-hour course as required by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). It is separated into 4 sections and has a simple 10-question ungraded quiz at the end of each section. These quizzes do not count towards your final score. Instead, they prepare you for the required final exam. You must score at least 80% on the final exam in order to pass. If you don’t pass on your first try, you have two more opportunities to take the final exam at no additional cost. In the unlikely event that you fail the final exam three times, the TEA requires that you register for and retake the course from the beginning.

Did you get a ticket in Austin and need to take a defensive driving course? Our Internet courses are approved for ticket dismissal and insurance discount by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

The Traffic101.com defensive driving course for Texas is a 6-hour course as required by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). It is separated into 4 sections and has a simple 10-question ungraded quiz at the end of each section. These quizzes do not count towards your final score. Instead, they prepare you for the required final exam. You must score at least 80% on the final exam in order to pass. If you don’t pass on your first try, you have two more opportunities to take the final exam at no additional cost. In the unlikely event that you fail the final exam three times, the TEA requires that you register for and retake the course from the beginning.

Traffic101.com is approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for all of Texas including Austin. Visit the City of Austin website for more information on Driving Safety Course requirements.

If you get a ticket and want to take the Traffic101.com course, you should enter a plea of “guilty” or “no contest” to the charge, pay the administrative fee, and request to take the course. You may request a Driving Safety Course in person or by mail. Follow the instructions on the green sheet the police officer gave you when your ticket was issued.

Then click on Register Now, to begin! You can start the course immediately, and can start and stop as many times as you need.

The court will give you 90 days to complete the defensive driving course and submit a certificate of completion and driving record (obtainable from Department of Public Safety in Austin).

Once you complete the defensive driving course we will mail two copies of the certificate of completion to you. One copy is for the court, and the other is for your auto insurance provider. It is your responsibility to get the certificate of completion to the appropriate agency. If you lose the certificates, we can provide duplicates.

You can take a defensive driving course once every 12 months to have a ticket dismissed. You may not take more than one Driving Safety Course per year for any court in Texas for ticket dismissal. However, if one of the violations for which you were cited is for not having a child safety seat or not having a child properly in the seat, you may be eligible to take a Child Seat Belt Safety Course in addition to the DSC.

By taking the course, you do not have to pay for the traffic ticket fine. If you have a commercial driver’s license or the ticket was for speeding 25 mph above the posted limit, you are NOT eligible to take a defensive driving course.