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Wha are the 3 parts of the HTS?
People- walking, driving, riding (also called roadway users)
Vehicles- Mopeds, motorcycles, cars, tractor-semitrailer, buses, campers
Radways- dirt lanes, complex multilane expressways, conditions: rain, nighttime, rough pavement
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What is the driving task?
The driving task is all social, phiysical, and mental skills required to drive.
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What are the 3 skills necessary to complete the driving tas? (explain each)
Social skills- interactions with other drivers
Physical skills- the skill needed to manuever the car smoothly
Mental skills- needed for making dcisions by using the IPDE process
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What does IPDE mean?
Identify
Predict
Decide
Execute
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What is Identify?
Important information in the ongoing driving scene.
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What is Predict?
When and where possible points of conflict will develop.
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What is Decide?
When, where, and how to communicate, adjust speed, and/or change position to avoid conflict.
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What is Execute?
The right actions to present conflict.
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What is the most important cause of traffic collisions?
Driver error is the most important cause of traffic collisions.
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What are 3 other causes of collisions?
*Following another vehicle too closely
*Driving too fast for conditions
*Not wearing safety belt
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What are the 8 shapes of roadway signs?
1. circle
2. rectangle
3. octagon
4. triangle
5. diamond
6. pennant
7. square
8. pentagon
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What are the 8 colors of roadway signs?
1. red
2. orange
3. yellow green
4. blue
5. yellow
6. black
7. brown
8. green
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What are the 3 types of roadway signs and what does each type mean?
Warning sign- for traffic regulation
Regulatory sign- for speed regulation
Guide sign- for direction
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What does broken yellow lines mean?
passing allowed
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What does solid yellow lines mean?
no passing allowed
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What does broken white lines mean?
Separate lanes of traffic that are moving in the same direction. You may cross these broken white lines when changing lanes.
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What does solid white lines mean?
Restricts lane changing and means you should not cross them. It also helps you see at night and mark pedestrian crosswalks and stop lines.
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What does the basic speed law mean?
The basic speed law means the law stating that you may not drive faster than is safe and prudent for existing conditions, regardless of posted speed limits.
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What is advisory speed limit?
Speed limit set for special conditions such as sharp curves.
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List the 3 places that you would stop at an intersection marked by a stop sign?
1. stop line
2. before enterng the crosswalk
3. before entering the intersection
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What does downshifting mean?
Shifting from a higer to a lower gear.
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What does separating hazards mean?
Process of adjusting the speed of a vehicle to handle one hazard at a time when two or more hazards threaten a driver.
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What does compromising hazards mean?
Reduce risk by giving as much space as possisble to the greater of two or more hazards.
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What are the most important actions you execute as a safe driver?
Controlling speed, steer, and communicate
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What does selective seeing mean?
Identifying and selecting only those clues and events that restrict your line of sight or can change your intended path of travel.
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What does an orderly visual search pattern mean?
Process of searching critical areas in a regular sequence.
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What does implied consent mean?
States that anyone who recieves a driver's license automatically consents to be tested for blood-alcohol content and other drugs if stopped for suspicion of drug use while driving.
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What kind of task is safe, low-risk driving?
Mental task
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Graduated driver licensing programs?
*usually are completed in three licensing stages
*are conducted worldwide
*have resulted in fewer collisions among young drivers
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What is protectng yourself and others from dangerous and unexpected situations?
Defensive driving
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When applied to driving, what is the term that means the possibility of having a conflict that result in a collision?
Risk
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Made of people, vehicles, and roadways.
Highway transportation system
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Federal and state laws that regulate the HTS.
Vehicle Code
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Contact between two or more objects, as when two vehicles hit each other.
Collision
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Organized method designed to help drivers develop good seeing habits.
Smith System
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Method for managing the space around your vehicle.
Zone control system
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Program requiring young drivers to progress through a series of licensing stages
Graduated driver licensing program
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All the skills- social, physical, and mental - required to drive.
Driving task
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What does a round traffic sign mean?
Railroad crossing
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A construction zone sign is what color?
Orange
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What do two solid yellow center lines on a two-lane highway indicate?
No passing from either way
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What signal is used at heavy traffic intersections to tell people who are walking whether they should proceed or wait?
A pedestrian signal
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What do international signals use rather than words?
International symbols
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What is a lane on a busy street that helps drivers make safer mid-block left turns called?
Shared left-turn lane
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What sign controls traffic?
A traffic sign
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Sign that alerts you to possible hazards and road coditions
Warnin sign
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Signal that alerts drivers to dangerous conditions or tell them to stop
Flashing signal
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Sign set on roadways like primary highways and expressways to keep traffic moving safely
Minimum speed limit
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Signal, usually overhead, that tells whether a lane can or cannot be used at a specific time
Lane signal
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Speed limits set for special conditions such as sharp curves
Advisory speed limits
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Sign that gives directions
Guide sign
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What are found on a vehicle's instrument panel?
horn
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When entering a vehicle from the street side, you should...
* be ready to unlock the door
* walk around the front of the vehicle toward theback
* get in quickly, then clse and lock the door
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When starting an automatic transmission vehicle, the selector level should be in...
Park-P or Neutral-N
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The friction point is the point...
Whre the vehicle starts to move
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The... pedal in a stickshift vehicle enables a driver to shift gears.
clutch
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Compartment mounted between front seats in a vehicle
Console
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Device on the instrument panel indicating the total number of miles the vehicle has been driven
Odometer
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Stationary object appearing in the distance in the center of your intended path of travel.
Target
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Shifting from a higher to lower gear
Downshifting
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Device that shows the different driving gears and the one being used.
Shift indicator
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Padded devices on the backs of front seats that help reduce whiplash injuries in a collision.
Head restraints
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Which risk factor is contributed by the roadway and environment?
Bright sun
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Six areas of space around a vehicle that are the width of a lane and extend as far as the driver can see
Zones
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Peripheral vision refers to the area you can see
to the left an right of cenral vision
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Glancing continually and quickly through your orderly visual search pattern
Scanning
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An open zone is space where you can drive without a restriction to your... or to your intended path of travel
Line of sight
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Making quick glances to the roadway in front of your vehicle
Ground viewing
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Almost every... you make as a driver will be related to anticipating zone changes and looking for alternative paths of travel.
Prediction
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Area as far ahead as you can see a target in the center of your intended path, and to its right and left.
Target area range
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Space where you can drive without restriction to your line of sight or intended path of travel
Open zone
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Cone-shaped area of up to 10 degrees in which you can see clearly while looking straight ahead
Central vision
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One of six areas of space around a vehicle that is the width of a lane and extends as far as the driver can see
Zone
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All the area a person can see while looking straight ahead
Field of vision
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Side vision area to the left and right of central vision
Peripheral vision
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Process of adjusting the speed of a vehicle to handle one hazard at a time when two or more hazards threaten a driver.
Separate the hazards
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