In CA we have "Traffic School" as an option. Used to be you had to go waste a day in "traffic school" but now with the internet you can do it on line. If you haven't had a ticket in the last year and a half you can do traffic school. You have to pay the fine and for traffic school of course, but it keeps it off your record. Which means your insurance doesn't get jacked up. Also means if you don't get a ticket for the next year and a half you get to do it over again after that. Clean record here thanks to traffic school.