Signs, Signals, & Markings
These yellow and black, diamond-shaped signs are normally posted 250 - 700 prior to a hazard.
What are Warning Signs?
These laws are designed to help drivers understand who should be granted the privilege of proceeding first when more than one vehicle approaches an intersection at about the same time.
What are Right-of-Way Laws?
The inability to distinguish between red and green.
What is color blindness?
When a vehicle's tires lose contact with the road and ride on top of a film of water.
What is hydroplaning?
It is an exchange of information. It involves sending and receiving information.
What is communication?
These signs come in several shapes and colors and provide drivers with information about routes, exits and distances.
What are Guide Signs?
A state's standard tactic used when dealing with negligent drivers. It is simply a temporary disabling of your license. It happens when you accumulate enough points on your drivers license within a short period of time.
What is a suspension?
It is that five-degree cone that makes up only three percent of a driver's total visual field. It provides detail of objects and conditions and is the primary visual function employed in targeting.
What is central vision?
A situation in which your tires lose all or part of their grip on the road.
What is skidding?
These vehicles frequently travel at high speeds and could swerve suddenly. Equipped with sirens, flashing red or blue lights and permitted by law to break conventional road rules.
What is emergency vehicles?
These signs are pennant-shaped and are located on the left side of the roadway.
What is the No-passing zone sign?
A major moving traffic violation that generally consists in driving a vehicle with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.
What is reckless driving?
This type of vision is used to judge depth and position. It provides information about objects close to the travel path and lane position.
What is fringe vision?
Stalling, overheating or failure to start.
What is engine failure?
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?
These lanes markings may be single, double, solid or dashed (broken) and are used to separate traffic traveling in opposite directions.
What are Yellow Lines/Markings?
Behaviors directed at specific vehicles or occupants with malicious intent. These could include ramming, sideswiping, obscene gestures, discharging firearms and more.
What is road rage?
It is conical in shape around the other vision fields. It detects color and motion, providing you with information about moving or stationary objects that could be threats along the intended path of travel.
What is peripheral vision?
Turning the steering wheel back in the opposite direction in order to maintain or regain directional control of the vehicle.
What is counter steering?
A driving maneuver of coming together or blending vehicles to maintain a smooth, uninterrupted traffic flow.
What is merging?
These signs warn the motorist of dangerous curves and the need to slow to, or below, the recommended speed limit. These rectangular warning signs are marked with arrow-head symbols.
What are Chevron Alignment Signs?
A computerized database of information about United States drivers who have had their driver's licenses revoked or suspended, or who have been convicted of serious traffic violations, such as driving under the influence or drugs or alcohol.
What is the National Driver Register?
Moving your eyes in a constant pattern, from near to far and side to side.
What is searching?
Weather conditions such as rain, sleet, ice, snow or fog.
What is adverse driving conditions?
The chances that your vehicle and some other object will move closer together as you move closer together along your projected path of travel.
What is closing probability?