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In many states in the U.S., driving is the way most people get from one place to another. Because of this, Americans want to learn how to drive and get permission to drive as early as possible. Many teenagers take driver's education when they are 15-years-old so that they can get their driver's licenses as soon as they turn 16, which is the minimum age in most states when someone can legally drive on their own. In driver's ed, drivers are taught rules of the road and how to drive safely. They also learn the "consequences" or what happens when they don't "obey" or follow traffic laws.

Traffic tickets are pieces of paper, also called "citations," that police officers give to drivers who don't follow the rules. There are two types of traffic tickets: moving violations and non-moving violations. "Moving violations" are things that a driver does against the law while the car is moving, such as driving faster than the posted "speed limit," or the fastest speed a driver is allowed to drive under the law. "Non-moving violations" occur when the car is not moving, such as parking in a place where cars are not allowed. These tickets tell you what you did wrong and show "fines," or an amount of money that the driver has to pay as punishment for doing those things.

Traffic tickets are expensive, and they should be paid on time because each time that the deadline to pay is missed, the fine goes up for that ticket. Additionally, traffic tickets appear on driving records. When someone gets a driver's license, the DMV starts a file that will collect everything having to do with his or her driving. If too many tickets show up on this record, the DMV can "suspend" the person's license so that he or she can't legally drive for a period of time, or even worse, the DMV could "revoke" or take back the license, and that person loses the right to drive their car legally in that state.