SSM
Laws
Managing Risk: Vision and Perceptio
Adverse Conditions and Emergencies
Sharing the Road
100

These pavement markings are used for traffic moving in the same direction.

What are white lines?

100

Known as the HTS

What is the Highway Transportation System?

200

These pavement markings can be single, double, solid or dashed and they separate traffic moving in opposite directions.

What are yellow lines?

200

These laws determine who proceeds first when more than one vehicle is present at an intersection. 

What are Right-of-Way Laws?

200

These are areas around the car where visibility is restricted or limited. 

What is a blind spot?

200

When tires lose traction on the road surface.

What is skidding?

200

Use sirens and flashing lights and permitted by law to break conventional road rules.  

What is an emergency vehicle?

300

This category of traffic signs are diamond shaped and yellow and black

What are Warning Signs?

300

This is a temporary disabling of your license due to non-adherence to laws. 

What is a suspension?

300

This field of vision is off to the far sides of the central visual field.

What is peripheral vision?

300

To let you know you are close to the edge of the road.

What is the purpose of rumble strips?

300

These connect intersecting sections of roadways. Common on expressways and interstates. They consist of overpasses, underpasses, loops and ramps.

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What are interchanges?

400

These green traffic signs provide drivers with information about routes, exits and distances.

What are Guide Signs?

400

This term describes aggressive behaviors towards other drivers with malicious intent.  

What is road rage?

400

Turning the steering wheel in the opposite direction in order to maintain/regain control of the vehicle. 

What is counter steering?

400

A driving maneuver of coming together or blending vehicles to maintain a smooth, uninterrupted traffic flow. 

What is merging?

500

Weather conditions such as rain, sleet, ice, snow or fog.

What is adverse driving conditions?

500

Make wide turs, have extensive blind spots and long stopping distances.

What is a 18 wheeler?