Class 1:
Let's get the show on the road
Let's get the show on the road
These are the parts of the Highway Transportation System.
What are people, vehicles and roadway?
There are 8 different for EACH of these, allowing drivers to easily identify changes in road or traffic situations ahead.
What is the color or shapes of signs?
Where drivers can look to see that all systems are in good working condition. Most vehicle controls are displayed here.
What is the dashboard?
INEXPERIENCE
What is the one factor all new drivers have in common that can lead to a collision?
Take your foot off the gas pedal and let the car roll.
What you should do when a car is going downhill?
The laws that define vehicle and road usage.
What is the vehicle code?
This yellow, circle sign is an advanced warning for a potentially dangerous situation ahead.
What is the railroad crossing?
This is the "heart" of your vehicle: it controls the starting of the vehicle, moves fluids through and includes the spark plugs, ignition and valves.
What is the engine?
Checking the area or zones around your vehicle and your gauges regularly are an important part of this system.
What is the Zone Control System?
This is made up of three parts: perception time and distance, reaction time and distance, and braking distance.
What is total stopping distance?
During his Presidency, he developed the more sophisticated roadway system we now use today.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This shape can be either vertical, indicating a regulatory or situation that you must follow, or horizontal, indicating a guide, park and rec or services up ahead.
What is a rectangle?
This controls the cooling of the vehicle and includes radiator fluid that absorbs the heat off the engine.
What is the radiator?
The five steps in this system helps to develop good seeing habits for drivers to better anticipate changes in the constantly changing driving environment.
What is the Smith System?
What should you do if involved in a collision?
Because her husband was too shy to show his invention, this woman decided otherwise and took her husband's invention on a 65 mile drive around Germany.
Who is Bertha Betz?
How would drives know they are traveling on a one way road if no sign or traffic are present.
What is the transmission?
This is an organized system of seeing, thinking and responding to changes around you.
What is IPDE?
This is the average to stop at any speed.
What is the 4-second rule?
What is assembly line production?
This lane allows vehicles from opposing traffic to turn left from the same area. It allows traffic going straight to move more effectively.
What is a shared turn lane?
This is part of the emissions system and is responsible for changing the toxic gases created by the engine into carbon dioxide and water.
What is the catalytic converter?
When taking into consideration that collisions involve different factors related to the driver, vehicle and the roadway, this is the number ONE reason for a collision.
The formula to calculate number of feet per second traveled at any given speed.
What is 1.4 ft/sec X mph?