Driver’s Ed Final Exam Study Guide – Flashcards
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Age group with the highest accident rate.
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16-19
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After entering a vehicle.
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Adjust the position of the driver's seat and then the rearview mirror.
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An automatic-shift vehicle.
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Start in neutral or park.
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Best way to start a cold engine in a car equipped with an automatic choke.
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Press the accelerator to the floor once and release to open the choke.
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While driving, the alternator lights come on.
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The alternator is not working properly
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If the brake warning light comes on as you apply the foot brake.
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A failure in the brake system
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Emergency flashers should be used.
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When you are stopped and your car is a hazard.
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The last thing you should do just before entering traffic from the curb.
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Check traffic over the left shoulder
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Shifting to a lower gear from a higher one.
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Downshifting
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When steering a vehicle in reverse.
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The rear of the vehicle will move in the direction that the steering wheel is turned.
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When making a lane change.
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Use your turn signals, check mirrors, and look over your shoulder and check blind spot.
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Legal provided the driver comes to a stop before turning amd the way is clear.
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Right turn on a red traffic signal
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A correct right turn.
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Right lane to right turn lane
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Want to make a left turn.
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Signal a half a block from the corner and begin to slow down
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When turning left from a two lane street into a one-way.
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Turn into the nearest lane for traffic moving in your direction
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When making a left turn from a one-way onto another one-way.
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The turn is made from left lane to left lane.
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When approaching an intersection, as a general rule.
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Decrease speed
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To make a three-point turnabout.
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Signal right, stop, signal left, go forward left, then back right
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When backing in a straight line.
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Steer with the left hand while the body is turned to the right, looking out the rear window
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Two fators that determine the amount of traction available.
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Tire tread and road surface
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When stopping quickly on a slippery surface.
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Driver should avoid sudden or hard braking by pumping the brakes
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Three classifications of official traffic signs.
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Regulatory, warning, and guide signs
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Three ways traffic signs may be recognized.
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Color, message, and shape
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To mark highway routes.
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The interstate highway system uses a plan of even numbers for east-west routes and odd numbers for north-south routes.
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Slow down and look for a train.
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Round yellow sign with black marking
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Rectangular in shape and utilize two colors black and white.
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Regulatory signs
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Shape of signs warning you of bad curves, winding roads, or crossroads ahead.
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Diamond shaped signs
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Required to stop until safe to proceed.
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Eight-sided red sign with white markings
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When making a right turn on red at an intersection.
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A driver must stop and proceed only if the way is clear
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With a green arrow pointing right with a red light.
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Turn after yielding to traffic already moving
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Passing in either direction is prohibited.
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Two solid or unbroken yellow lines as a center marking on a roadway
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If the center-line marking has two lines, one solid and the other broken.
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You may overtake and pass other vehicles if the broken line is on your side
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Expressways, information, distance, and direction signs.
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Green
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What most crashes are caused by.
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Wrong decisions
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Best action to take when you are being tailgated.
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Increase your following distance
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Will enable a driver to determine proper following distance.
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"Two-second" rule
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When traction is poor.
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Your following time should be increased to 3 seconds or more
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When tailgating in traffic.
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A driver gives away sight, stopping, amd swerving distance
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The surest way to prevent rear-end collisions.
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Maintain an adequate following dostance
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One of the most difficult judgements to make in passing another car.
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The speed of approaching vehicles
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In addition to bumper kick up, intersections, and shrinking distance, the fourth clue to watch out for when following in traffic is...
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Brake lights
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Held responsible for passing the driver.
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The driver who is passing
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When power steering quits operating.
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Steer by exerting extra effort
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When brakes fail.
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Pump the brakes several times
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To dry out wet brakes.
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Brake repeatedly at low speed
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When driving a freeway speeds and the right tire blows out.
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Grip the steering wheel firmly, release the accelerator and apply the brakes gently when speed is reduced
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As soon as rainfall begins, the road surface is more slippery.
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An oil film has been formed on the road surface
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If your wheels spin when putting the car in motion on slick surface.
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You should feed less gas
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Pumps his brakes on a slippery road surface to control steering and not lock his wheels.
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A good driver
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You park your car off the road in sand, when you try to leave your right rear wheel just spins.
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You should shift to a higher gear
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Driving at 50 mph, your right front wheel runs off on the shoulder p, your first reaction should be to.
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Hold the steering wheel firmly amd decrease your soeed
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People who have tunnel vision.
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More likely to be involved in side-swipe collisions
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Found in the exhaust of all gasoline engines.
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Carbon monoxide
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If you find someone unconscious and suspect carbon monoxide.
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You should get them out into open air
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The most common causeof reduced driver fitness.
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Fatigue
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If in an accident.
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Immediate stop, remder assistance, and exchange insurances and information.
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Should be moved only if theperson is in extreme danger.
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A seriously injured person
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Best treated for shock by using blankets or clothing to keep the body warm.
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Injured persons
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If driver appears to have suffered a back or neck injury in a crash.
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Avoid moving the victim until medical personnel arruves
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Your first responsibility when involved in a collision.
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Give aid to the injured
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If involved in a collision.
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The first call for assistance should be to the nearest law enforcement agency
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The emotion that most frequently interferes with driving.
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Anger
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The human functions that are most likely affected first by alcohol.
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Reasoning and judgement
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The impairing effects of alcohol taken with another drug.
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Greater than the individual effects of each.
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More likely to be influnced by the same amount of alcohol because young people are less experienced amd violating the law.
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Driving behavior of young people, when compared with adults
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Best way to reduce the effects of alcohol.
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Allowing time to to elapse without further drinking
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The average person burns alcohol in his system.
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Rate of one drink per hour
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If a person eats before or while he is drinking.
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The effects of alcohol will be slowed down
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Drivers may be charged with driving under the influence.
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When their blood level reaches .08%
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A common side effect of anthistaminesand similar cold medicines.
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Drowsiness
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Law that requires drivers to consent to a breathalyzer if they are suspected of drinking and driving.
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Implied consent law
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If you refused a breathalyzer test.
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Suspension of your license
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Most important to stop trouble before it develops.
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Preventive maintenance
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What oil does for the engine.
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Reduces friction, carries away heat and keeps the engine clean
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When the battery is dead.
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Nothing electrical will work
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To improve fuel consumption.
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Accelerating slowly, smoothing, and anticipating stops
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Best gas mileage.
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Radial tires
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Correct way to figure miles per gallon of gas.
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Divide gallons used into miles driven
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Examination for a Florida operator's license.
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Road sugns, road rules, vision test, driving test, and inspection of the vehicle
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To comply with Florida's Financial Responsibility Law.
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A driver must be able to pay for damages and injuries incurred in a collision
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Studies show that as a group, students who own cars
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Make lower grades than other students.
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The purpose of Florida's point system.
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Remove habitual violators from the road
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Best strategy for avoiding rear-end collisions.
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Keeping an adequate space cushion to the front of your car at all times.
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What most states require motorcycle operators to wear.
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Safety helmets and protective goggles
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What motorcyclists should do.
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Keep their headlights on anytime they are operating a motorcycle
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Doesn't have a flasher or crossing gate.
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Uncontrolled railroad crossing
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When a school bus stops on a 2- lane highway.
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Traffic is required to stop in both directions
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Has the greatest potemtial for protecting passengers in a head-on collision.
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Seat belts
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Will lower the chances of serious injury in a collision.
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Utilization of lap belts and shoulder harness
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Even with the middle of the head.
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Proper adjustment of the head restraint
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Most effectively prevented by headrests.
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Whiplash injuries
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Factor that contributes most frequently to fatal car crashes.
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Excessive speed
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Best procedure to use when entering an expressway.
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Spot a gap in traffic and enter the expressway at the same speed as cars in the near lane
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May cause drowsiness.
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Highway hypnosis
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If vision is reduced to less than 1000 feet.
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Required to turn on your low-beam headlights
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When you cannot stop within the distance lighted by your headlights.
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Overdriving your headlights
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When following a car at night.
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Keep your headlights in the low beam position
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An example of a driving problem during rainfall.
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Reduced visibility, traction, anf traffic flow
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In Florida.
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Headlights are required to be on between sunset and sunrise and during twilight hours
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After leaving an expressway.
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Most drivers tend to drive too fast for conditions
