Drivers Ed Unit 3 – Flashcards

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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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