Click and save: NY state offers online driving class

By: The Associated Press

Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:18 AM EDT

ALBANY -- New Yorkers who pay about $50 to drive down a cartoon road on their computers can save hundreds of dollars off their car insurance.
Under a program launched this month, New York joins 26 other states that offer on-line driving courses to cut insurance costs and erase points from drivers' licenses.

The virtual driving courses can be a big help in a state with some of the highest auto insurance rates in the country. The cost of an insurance premium for New Yorkers varies based on a number of factors, including where the driver lives.

Drivers who have points on their license can drop up to four points when they successfully complete the course. In New York, a drivers' license is suspended at 11 points.

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Farmer's Gal wrote on May 25, 2009 6:38 AM:

" How about a link to the info/sign-up page? (I have no points to lose but appreciate having the savings on my insurance). "

Voice of Auburn wrote on May 25, 2009 2:02 AM:

" wheres the link? "

wopinator wrote on May 25, 2009 12:36 AM:

" Trooper 2b....were you born last night under a rock, this course is designed to teach safety, and erasing points is incentive. I have 0 points, haven't had points in about 15 years. Almost everybody speeds at some point, most catch themselves and slow down (today's cars make it easy to go fast without feeling it). But police do their job, and a normally law abiding citizen can get nabbed just out of bad luck. Then there's the bad day and bam, another ticket. Bad things come in streaks. So this will help this person be more aware, and maybe chronic speeders even more aware, and your crying about points! "

The Bone wrote on May 24, 2009 5:26 PM:

" They do that in Florida. "

trooper2b wrote on May 24, 2009 12:03 PM:

" what is this country coming to? i understand that people make mistakes, its absolutely insane to enable these people even more, creating this course is only going to enable them to take the class, lower the points on their license and re-offend and incur those points yet again. "

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