Motion
This is the definition of Motion
What is a change in position?
This is the goal of car safety
What is making crashes less dangerous?
This is the definition of Go Zone
What is the area in which you can safely pass through an intersection?
This is the definition of response time
What is the length of time taken for a person to react to a given stimulus or event?
The generally accepted safe distance between two vehicles.
What is two to three seconds?
This is the difference between Speed and Velocity
What is displacement?
This was the year the seat belt was introduced
When was 1955?
This is the effect that yellow light time has on the Go Zone
What is an increase?
Name one stimulus that can be used to measure response time.
What is audio, visual, or touch?
The difference between the two-second rule and the three-second rule.
What is one is used for higher speeds?
This is the equation for distance
What is d=1/2at2 + vit?
This is the area in the front of a car which absorbs most of an impact
What is a crumple zone?
This is what is known as a Dilemma Zone.
What is a zone where neither going nor stopping is safe?
Name one factor that can change reaction time.
What is age, disability, fatigue, distractions, or fitness.
The definition of tailgating.
What is following another vehicle very closely?
Also known as this, it involves using short bursts of light to show motion
What is Strobe Photography?
This is the cause of 90% of all road accidents
What is Human Error?
These are the two things required to safely pass through an intersection
What are being able to stop while being fully in the stop zone or being able to get completely through before the light is red.
Name one situation where response time is connected to safe driving.
Answer varies, but an example is if you turn a corner and a moose is standing in the road.
In the event of a two car collision, this car is legally at fault.
What is the car in the rear?
A distance-time graph will show this when you walk forward a step, stop, and repeat three times.
What is a staircase?
Two methods to keep people protected from airbag injuries
What are 1. sitting further from the steering wheel, 2. seating children in the backseat, 3. Avoiding sleeping against the windows or 4. wearing your seatbelt properly.
These are three things you can do as a traffic engineer to make roads safer
What is changing the time a light stays yellow, posting the speed limit, and widening the intersection?
This is the average human response time that we recorded in the age group activity.
What is 0.235 seconds?
The definition of critical speed.
What is the speed at which a vehicle loses control on a curve?