Unit 5 ADTSEA Quiz

What does searching for threatening objects or conditions in traffic depend on most?

• Perfect eyes

• Knowing the street or area

• Keep your eyes moving

• Seeing out of the corners of your eyes

When you look far and near and side to side you are:

• Searching

• Centering

• Checking

• Monitoring

The best way to keep from getting involved in emergency driving situations is to:

• Keep your eyes glued on the target area of the travel path ahead

• Keep your car in good mechanical condition

• Use rearview and side mirrors

• Continually search for threatening objects or conditions

Which step of the decision process has a driver just taken when he determines what will probably happen in a driving situation?

• Search

• Evaluate

• Execute

• Question

Managing space when driving means managing the distance between a driver’s vehicle and the vehicle:

• Ahead

• Behind

• To the sides

• A, B, and C are correct

The reason for making visual checks to the left or right before changing lanes is because:

• It’s quicker than checking the mirrors

• It’s easier than checking the mirrors

• It covers areas not visible in the mirrors

• It provides a smaller picture

Sudden braking or swerving in traffic indicates that a driver:

• Is skillful at maneuvering

• Is alert and searching well ahead

• Has good reflexes

• Is not searching far enough ahead

Detecting potentially threatening objects or conditions in traffic mostly depends on:

• 20/20 vision

• Being familiar with the road on which one is driving

• An organized, aggressive, visual search

• Side vision

Managing space to the front of your car requires a following distance of at least:

• 1 second

• 2 seconds

• 3-4 seconds

• 2 car lengths

Which is NOT a visual search category when driving?

• Passengers in the car

• Traffic controls

• Roadway conditions

• Other roadway users