Driver Education: Chapter 17 Complex Risk Environments

When planning your route for a trip on an expressway, you should:

• be familiar with alternate exits.

• be aware of the guide signs pertaining to the route planned.

• plan the time of travel to avoid rush hour traffic around urban centers.

• all of these.

Which of these are all types of interchanges found on expressways?

• Flute, harp, and violin.

• Frontage road, star, and heart.

• Diamond, trumpet, and cloverleaf.

• All of these.

The entrance to an expressway has three parts. What are they?

• The entrance ramp, the acceleration lane, and the merge area.

• The entrance ramp, the deceleration lane, and the merge area.

• The exit ramp, the deceleration lane, and the merge area.

• The weave lane, the acceleration lane, and the exit lane.

On the entrance ramp, to locate a gap, you should:

• use both mirrors.

• use the left outside mirror.

• use a series of short, quick glances.

• look out the rear window.

Entering an expressway, it is preferable to:

• move to the left as soon as possible.

• reduce speed in the acceleration lane.

• adjust your speed to merge with the gap you selected.

• maintain speed, other motorists must yield.

You should begin to accelerate when on the:

• entrance ramp.

• acceleration lane.

• merge area.

• expressway.

When entering an expressway behind several other vehicles, you should:

• stay as close as possible to the vehicle ahead.

• be aware that the driver ahead might slow down on the acceleration lane.

• check the space area ahead of the driver ahead of your vehicle.

• all of these.

When entering directly onto a freeway (no acceleration lane), you should:

• use the access ramp to check traffic and to adjust speed to the flow of traffic.

• enter the freeway at a slower speed than the flow of traffic.

• expect drivers on the freeway to yield the right-of-way.

• all of these.

When entering an expressway from an entrance ramp on the left, you must expect a greater potential for conflict because you are entering:

• after stopping completely.

• the slow lane on the expressway.

• the passing or high speed lane.

• all of these.

Reducing speed or stopping on the acceleration lane can lead to:

• a rear-end collision.

• a head-on collision.

• a side-impact collision.

• all of these.