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Driving Skills in Rural Areas
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These typically have advisory speed and warning signs posted before you enter them. A safe way to approach them is to reduce speed.
What are curves?
100
Three reasons a driver may cross the center line and into your path of travel.
All acceptable: driver impairment, poor judgment, poor visibility, reduced space, sudden moves by others, vehicle failure, turning buses and trucks, double-parked vehicles
100
A strategy for driving up a very steep hill or mountain.
What is accelerating steadily and downshifting?
100
Streets with cars travelling in only one direction
What are one-way streets?
100
Actor of the year 2016 Oscar winner.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
200
A typical rural version of this is when a side road crosses a main road. Constantly be aware of warning signs that indicate one of these is coming up in the roadway.
What is an intersection?
200
A safe following distance to use driving in heavy traffic.
What is 3 or more seconds?
200
A strategy to reduce effects of hot desert driving.
Acceptable answers: wear good quality sunglasses, plan more frequent stops and change drivers often, carry an ample supply of water
200
Two ways to signal a driver going the wrong way on a one-way street
honk horn flash headlights
200
Lane to be positioned in when leaving a one-way street.
What is the far left lane?
300
Normally have four or more lanes of traffic. In a rural area a two lane version of this will typically have a higher speed limit.
What is a multilane roadway?
300
A driving habit to help you better prepare to stop quickly in instances of heavy traffic.
What is covering the brake?
300
Vehicles unable to travel at highway speeds.
What are slow-moving vehicles? i.e. tractors, farm vehicles, etc.
300
Intersections without traffic lights or signals.
What are uncontrolled or blind intersections?
300
Only state capitol in the country without a McDonald's
What is Montpelier?
400
A way to divide roadways traveling in opposite directions.
What is a median?
400
Two main factors that make city driving difficult.
What is denser traffic and hazards are closer than in rural areas?
400
A series of sharp turns on mountain roads.
What are switchbacks?
400
To drive with the flow of traffic once turning onto a main road from a side street.
What is blending into traffic?
400
Pavel Dvorak
What is bicycle?
500
The amount of space in which you are not allowed to pass before the top of a hill.
What is 700 to 1,000 feet?
500
A special lane on highways or much traveled lanes that are for cars with two or more passengers.
What is a carpool lane?
500
What you do before beginning to travel down a mountain or steep hill.
What is downshifting?
500
Name one area where sudden stops may be expected.
All acceptable: intersections where drivers may have to stop for traffic or pedestrians, lanes next to parked vehicles, business driveways with high volume traffic
500
Another name for passing a car.
What is overtaking?