How It Works
In just a few clicks, you can be on your way to completing your 4-hour Indiana Drivers Safety Program course. Just register for the course online and get started watching the videos and reading your course materials. You can finish the course in one sitting or log in and out as your schedule allows.
Our state-approved defensive driving course includes six modules, and each section ends in a short open-book quiz. After you finish the sixth module quiz, you'll take a comprehensive final quiz.
Once you pass the final quiz, we will send your digital completion certificate to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) within one day, including weekends. The BMV will remove points from your driving record soon after your completion of the course is confirmed. Meeting Indiana Driver Safety Program requirements has never been so easy!
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Crash Problem and Dynamics
- Driving — What's the Problem?
- Crash Dynamics: Effect of Speed on Force of Impact
- Energy Absorption in Relation to Vehicle Design, Direction of Impact
- Chapter 1 Quiz
Chapter 2: Driver Safety
- Indiana Traffic Laws Pertinent to Driver Safety
- Railroad Crossing
- Speed Limits
- Driver and Passenger Safety
- Child Passenger Safety
- Airbags
- Roadway Rules and Regulations Pertinent to Driver Safety
- Safety Equipment
- Signs, Signals and Road Markings
- Road Markings
- Chapter 2 Quiz
Chapter 3: Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) Prevention
- OWI Common Perceptions
- Effects of Alcohol & Other Drugs on Driver Capabilities
- Relationship of Amount of Alcohol Consumed to BAC
- Drugs
- Legal Consequences of OWI: Including Increasing Severity with Repeated Offenses
- Financial Consequences of OWI, Both Personal and Societal
- Chapter 3 Quiz
Chapter 4: Condition of the Driver
- Stress, Anger and Fatigue
- Types of Bad Drivers
- Aggressive Driving and Road Rage
- Novice Drivers and Aging Drivers
- Chapter 4 Quiz
Chapter 5: Safe and Responsible Driving
- Progressive Severity of Legal Penalties
- What Do the Terms Cancel, Revoke and Suspend Mean?
- Financial Responsibility
- Motorcycle and Motor Driven Cycle Licensing and Training
- Maintaining Proper Following and Stopping Distances
- Passing
- Sharing the Road
- Vehicle Maintenance Procedures Pertinent to Driver Safety
- Distracted Driving
- Chapter 5 Quiz
Chapter 6: Defensive Driving
- Defensive Driving
- Crash Prevention Techniques
- Collision Cases
- Urban, Rural and Expressway Driving
- Condition of the Road
- Environmental Hazards
- Vehicle Emergencies
- What to Do in the Event of an Emergency/Collision
- Chapter 6 Quiz
Final Quiz and Completion Instructions
- Quiz on all course topics
- Instructions to follow to receive your certificate