How to Drive Chapter 1

Safe drivers should be able to do all of these things EXCEPT:

• Monitor traffic and traffic-control devices.

• Ignore the actions of other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists.

• Search for and obtain information from frequently changing environments.

• Know and comply with traffic regulations.

• Assess the consequences of alternative responses.

Answer explanation

Instead of ignoring these actions, a safe driver must OBSERVE and ANTICIPATE the actions of other drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists.

Completing a drivers education course and obtaining a drivers license means you are ready to drive safely!

• True

• False

All of these things can place additional demands on a driver EXCEPT:

• Increased speed

• Dense traffic

• Poor weather

• Waiting at a drive-thru window

• Stress and fatigue

It takes a new driver about ___ years to develop the driving ability demonstrated by the average driver.

• 1 year

• 2 years

• 4 years

• 5 years

The chance of injury, damage or loss associated with a driving situation is known as _____.

• Risk

• Yield

• Action

• Control

Of the three potential causes of motor vehicle crashes (driver, vehicle, roadway), which contributes the MOST to crashes?

• Driver

• Vehicle

• Roadway

Nearly a quarter of all new drivers will be involved in a collision or convicted of a traffic offense during their first year of driving.

• True

• False

Each year, approximately _____ people are killed in motor vehicle-related collisions in the U.S.

• 75,000

• 40,000

• 25,000

• 10,000

Drivers who are unaware of the risk involved in driving will:

• Tend to take the action required to control obvious risks.

• Tend to insist that any crash they were involved in is not their fault.

• Both A and B are correct.

• Both A and B are false.

More than ___ percent of all vehicle-occupant fatalities occur in single-vehicle crashes.

• 25

• 50

• 75

• 90