They are on the list of DMV approved traffic schools. (Which says they’ve been licensed since 1/3/2013.) (Annoyingly, the DMV site doesn’t have URLs for the approved online traffic schools, only phone numbers. (WTF!?) I matched the 800 number in the listing to that on the web site, but I didn’t call them.)

The price on the front page is $19.95. I found a referral code on the web that gave me $2 off (so $17.95 total). At the end, it gave me a code 78721 that will give you $2 off and promises to pay me $3. (I’m not holding my breath, but use it if you like. There are obviously lots of these codes out there, so use one.)

I finished in about 90 minutes. (With the TV on and taking time to read some of the text out of curiosity.) I got 100% on the final on the first try. (You get a 2nd chance if you don’t pass on the first. After that, you have to pay again.)

There are no references to “speed racer” or anything like that. Now they have you answer a bunch of multiple choice “identification questions” at the start. (e.g. What’s your favorite day of the week? With four to choose from). You have to give the same answer to one of these before each quiz and before the final.

They make it a little harder to cut/paste now. (You can’t just select text with the mouse or right click to save.) I use IE10 and was able to save each page as .txt. (Using ctrl-s and then selecting .txt format.) Obviously there was no timer for me.

Each quiz is 4 or 5 multiple choice questions. Some are true/false. Many are “all of the above” or “c) a and b” (or something like that). Many are obvious without reading the text. Some want a speed or percentage answer (still multiple choice) that you may need to refer to the text to answer. If you get any wrong, it tells you which ones and sends you back to the text. When you click forward to the quiz again, you get the same questions.

They still have some extra cost options, including something like $6.95 to electronically transmit your results to the DMV “immediately” (as opposed to within 24 hours?) and another ~$10 fee to notify you when the DMV has accepted the certificate and various other fees to send you a copy. I declined all of that.
It still gave me a page to print my own certificate at the end.

It did ask what your deadline was for the course. Mine was a couple weeks away. I’m curious if it jacks the prices up or pushes the other options harder if your date is closer.

The final was 25 questions similar to those on the quizzes.
One question on the final had a misleading typo. Something like “the principle action that cause distracted driving”. “action” should have been “actions” as the right answer is “all of the above”.

I found easyfastcheap.com to be easy and fast but not really cheap. I went there based on these reviews and it did not disappoint. Use the Control+F (find) as stated here to highlight key words in the text “lessons”. You can skip the reading, take the quiz (by scrolling to the bottom of the page), and use the back button or link to navigate back to the previous page or lesson in order to control+f the answer to question you don’t know. I knew the answer to aprox. 85% of the quiz question without any research. I wrote down the answers to the Racer questions just as insurance. Total time inc. payment and filling out required feilds was 55 min. I wasn’t racing and even took a short phone call. I did have a couple of page load errors but refreshing the page or hitting the back button a few times in seccession got the page loaded. Total price paid was 36.00 inc a downloaded cert that isn’t nec at all. I just wanted to put it with my other records of this ticket. Overall very good! Well worth the price for ease of use and time savings! Hope this clarifies a few details in how to navigate this easy and fast traffic school.

Here’s the link: http://www.drive-safely.net/

Later I went back to the same intersection and watched what other drivers did. About 80% of the drivers “California stopped” at this intersection. I figure that if all the violators get tickets like I did, the camera makes something like $10,000 a day. That’s over $3,000,000 in a year! (A good chunk of that goes to the camera company.)

BTW, the amount of the fine is set by State, not the county, as near as I can tell.

I just finished taking it (pretty easy if you can figure out how c/p the text) and my due date is the 26th. I’m kind of regretting not choosing a faster delivery method, but I guess we’ll see what happens.

http://www.bbb.org/san-diego/business-reviews/traffic-school/easy-fast-cheap-online-traffic-school-in-san-diego-ca-172003060/

This is based on a single complaint in the last 3 years?

On 1/13/2012 BBB confirmed that Easy Fast Cheap Online Traffic School had not obtained a necessary license from DMV Occupational Licensing.