Warning! Accused of leaving driver awareness course early! You can avoid this! Use this simple tip

user1977

bluelad1927 said:

Maybe change the title of this thread to

"WARNING do no attend driver awareness course whil sat in back seat of car outside friends house using dodgy WiFi connection"

Not sure who you are warning as I for one don't know of anybody who would consider doing such a thing

Especially when you have the option of doing it inside friend’s house, but for reasons unknown decide not to do so…

prettyandfluffy

The point of this course is to give people the opportunity to become better drivers so that they do not make the same or a worse mistake again.  I would suggest that the way you "participated" in this course suggests you did not take it seriously and your comments indicate this was an exercise to put a tick in a box to avoid points on your licence, nothing more.  It is hardly surprising to me then that the police are using the options available to them to address your speeding. 

mr_stripey

It certainly does appear that the OP did not treat the course with the seriousness it deserved and failed to engage with it sufficiently. A very poor choice of "venue" was chosen to participate in the course.

Grumpy_chap

I am not sure how this Police course was run, but a Colleague of mine recently had to do a similar course and he explained that the requirements for the area were very strict. 
It included items such as webcam on all the time, closed door, no-one else in the room, plus using the camera on the phone to show a clear desk and clear walls (no paper notes etc), by doing a panoramic sweep around before the start and then having the phone set up to show (in addition to the webcam) a view of the individual, keyboard and screen maintained throughout the whole duration.
I certainly would not want to be trying to satisfy all of that from a car with a weak WI-FI signal.  I also wonder whether the being in the car satisfied the "being alone" criteria as, presumably, there could be an assistant giving input through the windows.

WEASELL

Hi  @Kim 13

Thank you so much for your useful reply.

I did the training with a fully charged iPad and a fully charged iPhone as back up.

I took the car seat out of the car in the break.

I hear everyone else’s judgment ( not yours) on my decision to do the training from a car, but the detail of why is long and boring, and no one wants to listen to the violins playing in the background! I won’t inflict it on you.

The fact is if we look at the science , my iPad was just a few feet from her router, I don’t see what difference it makes? My friend has the most expensive Giganet Wi-Fi , I certainly expected no problems. At the end of the day are we sure the problems were with me? They may have been from the other end? 


I was late joining the course, it started at 8.10. My phone call to get a special joining link from the police ticket office ended at 8.12am, so I estimate I was four minutes late logging on.

You gave your friend excellent advice, to attend in person . They are lucky to have you as a friend

WEASELL

ontheroad1970 said:

A single 3 pointer bog standard SP30 often makes little or no difference to premiums at all.

Thank you for your kind comment. In a sea of bad news such welcome words.

tenchy

The_Unready said:

WEASELL said:

Because also you notice that 20 mile per hour speed limits are going up everywhere. As soon as the dust settles there will be cameras put up. Then thousands and thousands of people will be milked for money like a heard of jersey cows. 

There's an easy way to avoid being 'milked'. I'm sure you're aware of it, so I won't insult you by mentioning it here.

I can't think of it. Please enlighten us.

WEASELL

elsien said:

I did the online course with another provider, and they were quite keen to ensure that people were paying attention throughout. 

At one point, I was playing around with the backgrounds and was asked to turn the background off, presumably to evidence that it was no one else there with me.
Why were you using the chat rather than a microphone?I also wonder if your video problems are part of the reason. Doing it from outside with patchy Wi-Fi, possibly wasn’t one of your better choices.

A photo sent to a friend proves nothing at all about participation in a course.

I did use the microphone. I am a little bit shy on webinars and just use the chat as my first choice.
I fear you are correct about the photo.
I had my camera on and was looking directly at the ipad the whole time, I dont think anyone would have questioned my complete engagement.
Thank you for your support and interest.

WEASELL

force_ten1 said:

WEASELL said:

So let’s loop back to the start and the whole point of this post.

Tell your friends to take screenshots towards the end of online training or this could be them.

you have clearly stated that "There is other evidence I was there to the end, but there was no interest in them hearing it at all." so if they are not interested in the evidence you have to prove you were there then what's the point of screenshots? 

Thank you for your intellegent thinking.
With the screen shots I would have reported the Dorset police to Action fraud.
It would more than likely have been a waste of time, but its my time, and I would have liked that opportunity.

Barkin

tenchy said:

The_Unready said:

WEASELL said:

Because also you notice that 20 mile per hour speed limits are going up everywhere. As soon as the dust settles there will be cameras put up. Then thousands and thousands of people will be milked for money like a heard of jersey cows. 

There's an easy way to avoid being 'milked'. I'm sure you're aware of it, so I won't insult you by mentioning it here.

I can't think of it. 

Really?