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One of the foundations for effective driving is

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Developing options

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Driving safety requires how many of your senses?

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5

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Those who are color-blind cannot distinguish between the colors

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Red and green

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Depth perception is the ability to judge

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The relative distance of objects

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To avoid the nighttime glare from the headlights of an oncoming vehicle, look

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Beyond the headlights and to the right edge of the roadway

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Drivers who are color-blind can compensate by

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Knowing the position of the lights in a traffic signal

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Every intersection where streets with sidewalks meet has a

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Crosswalk

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Night vision can be reduced by

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Headlight glare, dark windshield, and dirty headlamps

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For your eyes to adjust to darkness after being exposed to glare, it can take up to

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5 seconds

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One of the most common sources of vehicle vibration comes from a vehicle's

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Tires

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While driving, you should be looking down the road by at least

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20 to 30 seconds

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Looking from side to side helps you see

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Cars and people that may be in the road by the time you reach them, signs that warn of problems ahead, and signs giving you directions

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To make sure no one is about the enter your driving path, you should always look to the sides at

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Crosswalks

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If you are driving with your high beams on, you should switch to low beams when traffic is

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500 feet away

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Your plan for giving meaning to the driving task should include

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How to look, where to look and what to look for

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Giving meaning to the driving task is aided by

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Your driving experience

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The most important sense used in driving is

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Vision

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When you drive at night, you need to compensate for

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Reduced visibility

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Balance is controlled by the

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Inner ear

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Any place where one line of traffic meets another is an

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Intersection

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You should always leave yourself a what to avoid a collision?

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Path of escape

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You should always what when increasing or decreasing speed?

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Use systematic searching and scanning

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T or F: If you are monetarily blinded by glare, you can keep driving normally because an oncoming car will pass quickly.

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False

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T or F: Even if your tires are worn or out of balance, they will not do any damage to other components of the vehicle.

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False

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T or F: You tend to steer your vehicle in the direction in which you are looking.

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True

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T or F: You do not always have to stop and yield to pedestrians in crosswalks to allow them to cross the street.

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False

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T or F: Ground viewing is a scanning technique.

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True

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T or F: How alert you are does not affect giving meaning to events on the road.

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False

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T or F: It takes your full, undivided attention to drive safely.

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True

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A mental process concerning understanding what you perceive

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Giving meaning

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Sprinting action due to a loss of traction

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Yaw

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Looking at everything in the driving environment

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Searching

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The ability to judge the distance of objects

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Depth perception

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A measure of how well you see

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Visual acuity

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Saying aloud what you sense in real-world traffic situations

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Commentary driving

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A vehicle's side-to-side balance

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Roll

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What you can see to the sides

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Fringe vision

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Forward/backward vertical movement of the car

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Pitch

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Picking up bits of information quickly with quick looks

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Scanning

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Options in a driving situation are based on a driver's

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Knowledge, experience, and skills

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When determining your options, you will gather information and make

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Choices, assumptions, and comparisons

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Assumptions are

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Events you think might happen

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Aggressive driving can include

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Weaving

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A choice is

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The selection between two or more possible options

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Before you can successfully respond to a driving event, you must have adequate

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Visibiluty

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The total time needed for a person to determine his or her options and choose one is known as

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Human-perception time

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As a driver, you will constantly have to adjust your

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Speed

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When you double your speed, it takes how much longer to stop?

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4 times

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On an icy road, you should reduce your speed

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To a crawl

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An accepted technique for managing time and space is

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Steering, accelerating, and signaling

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The best way to avoid collisions is to

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Maintain adequate space around your vehicle

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Your visual lead is

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The distance you can see ahead of your vehicle

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The ideal following interval between you and the front vehicle in front of or behind you is

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Three seconds

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The response zone is

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Further ahead of you than the potential immediate crash zone

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You should increase your following distance to more than normal when driving

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At night, at high speed, when being tailgated

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If possible, it is best to have a space on each side of your car at least

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Eight feet

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You should provide a little extra space when you pass

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Driveways

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You should not try to pass a vehicle when

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Another vehicle is in your blind spot, you are in another vehicle's blind spot, and when visibility is poor

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The options you have in a driving situation depend on your

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Situation

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Making good choices allows you to successfully manage

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Time, space, and visibility

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The time it takes a vehicle to respond is known as

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Vehicle-reaction time

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When you double your speed, your vehicle's destructive power is multiplied by

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Four

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Braking during a curve can cause you to what and skid?

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Lock the wheels

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Where you identify objects/conditions that may require a response or continuous attention is the

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Visual control zone

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The response zone is how many seconds ahead of you?

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8 to 12

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A safe space margin is called a

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Space cushion

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The chance of injury, damage, or loss is called

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Risk

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Faced with two dangerous situations, you should what by giving the most room to the one with greatest consequences?

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Compromise

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T or F: Making assumptions is an essential ability related to determining options.

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True

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T or F: Aggressive driving causes more than 50 percent of all motor-vehicle accidents.

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True

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T or F: Driving too fast is not a major cause of crashes, injuries, or fatalities.

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False

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T or F: An empty truck requires less stopping distance than a full truck.

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False

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T or F: You should never exceed the maximum recommended tire pressure for you vehicle.

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True

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T or F: The visual control zone is five seconds ahead of you.

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False

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T or F: If you have excellent reflexes, you may drive faster than the distance you can see ahead.

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False

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T or F: You should encourage a tailgater to pass by slowing gradually and moving to the right side of the lane.

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True

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T or F: Timing is most important for situations involving multiple moving objects.

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True

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T or F: If you miss a turn on a busy street, stop and back up instead of going to the next intersection.

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False

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