Driver Education Responsible Driving (Red book) Chapter 1-Driving & Mobility Notes and Study Guide.
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Transcript of Driver Education Responsible Driving (Red book copyright 2006) Chapter 1-Driving & Mobility Notes.
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Driver Education
Responsible Driving
(Red book copyright 2006)
Chapter 1-Driving & Mobility
Notes
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What Can You Gain from a Driver Education Course?
• As young adults you want to have mobility - the ability to move or be moved. The opportunity to have a driver’s license gives you independence.
• Young drivers are involved in 14% of all motor vehicle crashes, and most of these crashes
can be prevented. Fatal crash involvement is 38%.
• You will be sharing the road with 194
million other licensed drivers nationwide. NJ alone has 5.1 million licensed drivers.
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What will you learn in Driver Education?• Information and skills about driving
• Understanding the importance of being alert
• Gain knowledge about driving as a life-long skill
• How to prevent crashes
A crash is when a motor vehicle hits another motor vehicle, pedestrian, animal, bicyclist or any fixed object.
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What will you learn in Driver Education continued?
• More mobility means spending more money
• Being able to handle a wide range of driving situations
• Understand some of the problems of driving
• Like awareness of limiting factors (such as risk, illness, injury, side effects of medication and emotional state of the driver
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Driver Education is taught to help PREVENT accidents among young drivers
• Lack of experience is prevented by gaining experience with parents/instructors in different driving environments.
• Knowing the different driving dangerous times
• Limiting the transporting of passengers
• Knowing that young drivers, drive differently such as speeding, distractions, space awareness, wearing seatbelts etc.
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The Highway Transportation system (HTS)
• Regulated by federal, state and local governments working together to make a safer system
• To set uniform standards for vehicles and safety• Federal law established in 1974 said the maximum speed
limit is 55 mph. • In 1995, the law was
changed that each state can
set their own highway speed limits
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Highway Transportation System
• The system itself includes:• Roadways • People• Motor Vehicles• There are more than 194 million licensed drivers
using the HTS and 55 million pedestrians and bicyclists who use the HTS as well.
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The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
• Requires automakers to build certain safety features into their vehicles (examples - safety belts and shatterproof windows)
• Requires manufacturers to correct vehicle defects known as recalls.
• Recalls are very well know in today’s society, can you think of any recently?
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The National Highway Safety Act
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson• President Johnson signed this act into law,
September 9, 1966. • The reason for this law is because of the
rising number of fatalities on American highways between 1960 and 1965.
• There were more Americans killed on the HTS than all the wars combined prior to that point of time.
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The National Highway Safety ActSigned into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
• Establishes guidelines for State & Federal motor vehicle safety programs.
• Gives authority to each state to monitor:• Vehicle registration & inspection
• Driver licensing regulations & driving hours
• Traffic laws & traffic court
• Highway construction & maintenance
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The Risks of Driving• Risk is the possibility of personal injury or damage to
vehicles & property• In a given year, 1 in 9 teenage drivers will be involved in a
crash • Teens represent 14% of all drivers yet are involved in 38%
of fatal motor vehicle crashes involving people between the ages of 15 - 20. (2006)
• Anyone who operates or gets into a motor vehicle is potentially at risk
• Do you know of some ways we can reduce our risk?
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Reducing the Risks
• Keep your vehicle in top condition
• Anticipate the actions of other roadway users
• Protect yourself & other roadway users
• Drive only when you are in sound physical & mental condition
• Make a conscious effort to develop your driving skills
• Practice, practice, practice!
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Visibility, Time, & Space
• Visibility - what you can see from behind the wheel and how well you see it.
• Time - ability to judge your speed and speed of other vehicles.
• Space - refers to distance, keep a margin of space between your vehicle & other vehicles. AKA the space cushion!