Module 3: Laws of nature/vehicle balance/vision & Driving

Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its speed, or velocity and its mass.

• True

• False

A vehicle's kinetic energy can be overcome by:

• brakes

• friction

• gravity

• all of these answers are correct

Inertia wants to keep you going in a straight line. That is why you feel like you are being pulled toward the outside of a curve.

• True

• False

A vehicle will PITCH if the driver

• takes a curve too fast

• experiences traction loss to either the left or right rear tire

• brakes or accelerates too hard

• all of the these answers are correct

A vehicle will ROLL if the driver

• steers around a curve

• experiences traction loss in either the left or right rear tire

• brakes or accelerates too hard

• all of these answers are correct

A vehicle will YAW if the driver

• takes a curve too fast

• experiences traction loss to either the left or right rear tires

• brakes or accelerates too hard

• all of these answers are correct

To read road signs, you need to have good

• focal vision

• peripheral vision

• paracentral vision

• double vision

Your field of vision is

• what you can see while down the road at a specific target

• peripheral vision

• paracentral vision

• everything within 180 degrees in front of you

A driver uses his/her ______ vision to detect the motion from the sides.

• focal

• paracentral

• peripheral

• double

_________vision is first affected by fatigue, drugs, and speed.

• Focal

• Peripheral

• Paracentral

• Day