Drivers ed

test

16-19

Age group with the highest accident rate.

Adjust the position of the driver's seat and then the rearview mirror.

After entering a vehicle.

Start in neutral or park.

An automatic-shift vehicle.

Press the accelerator to the floor once and release to open the choke.

Best way to start a cold engine in a car equipped with an automatic choke.

The alternator is not working properly

While driving, the alternator lights come on.

A failure in the brake system

If the brake warning light comes on as you apply the foot brake.

When you are stopped and your car is a hazard.

Emergency flashers should be used.

Check traffic over the left shoulder

The last thing you should do just before entering traffic from the curb.

Downshifting

Shifting to a lower gear from a higher one.

The rear of the vehicle will move in the direction that the steering wheel is turned.

When steering a vehicle in reverse.

Use your turn signals, check mirrors, and look over your shoulder and check blind spot.

When making a lane change.

Right turn on a red traffic signal

Legal provided the driver comes to a stop before turning amd the way is clear.

Right lane to right turn lane

A correct right turn.

Signal a half a block from the corner and begin to slow down

Want to make a left turn.

Turn into the nearest lane for traffic moving in your direction

When turning left from a two lane street into a one-way.

The turn is made from left lane to left lane.

When making a left turn from a one-way onto another one-way.

Decrease speed

When approaching an intersection, as a general rule.

Signal right, stop, signal left, go forward left, then back right

To make a three-point turnabout.

Steer with the left hand while the body is turned to the right, looking out the rear window

When backing in a straight line.

Tire tread and road surface

Two fators that determine the amount of traction available.

Driver should avoid sudden or hard braking by pumping the brakes

When stopping quickly on a slippery surface.

Regulatory, warning, and guide signs

Three classifications of official traffic signs.

Color, message, and shape

Three ways traffic signs may be recognized.

The interstate highway system uses a plan of even numbers for east-west routes and odd numbers for north-south routes.

To mark highway routes.

Round yellow sign with black marking

Slow down and look for a train.

Regulatory signs

Rectangular in shape and utilize two colors black and white.

Diamond shaped signs

Shape of signs warning you of bad curves, winding roads, or crossroads ahead.

Eight-sided red sign with white markings

Required to stop until safe to proceed.

A driver must stop and proceed only if the way is clear

When making a right turn on red at an intersection.

Turn after yielding to traffic already moving

With a green arrow pointing right with a red light.

Two solid or unbroken yellow lines as a center marking on a roadway

Passing in either direction is prohibited.

You may overtake and pass other vehicles if the broken line is on your side

If the center-line marking has two lines, one solid and the other broken.

Green

Expressways, information, distance, and direction signs.

Wrong decisions

What most crashes are caused by.

Increase your following distance

Best action to take when you are being tailgated.

"Two-second" rule

Will enable a driver to determine proper following distance.

Your following time should be increased to 3 seconds or more

When traction is poor.

A driver gives away sight, stopping, amd swerving distance

When tailgating in traffic.

Maintain an adequate following dostance

The surest way to prevent rear-end collisions.

The speed of approaching vehicles

One of the most difficult judgements to make in passing another car.

Brake lights

In addition to bumper kick up, intersections, and shrinking distance, the fourth clue to watch out for when following in traffic is...

The driver who is passing

Held responsible for passing the driver.

Steer by exerting extra effort

When power steering quits operating.

Pump the brakes several times

When brakes fail.

Brake repeatedly at low speed

To dry out wet brakes.

Grip the steering wheel firmly, release the accelerator and apply the brakes gently when speed is reduced

When driving a freeway speeds and the right tire blows out.

An oil film has been formed on the road surface

As soon as rainfall begins, the road surface is more slippery.

You should feed less gas

If your wheels spin when putting the car in motion on slick surface.

A good driver

Pumps his brakes on a slippery road surface to control steering and not lock his wheels.

You should shift to a higher gear

You park your car off the road in sand, when you try to leave your right rear wheel just spins.

Hold the steering wheel firmly amd decrease your soeed

Driving at 50 mph, your right front wheel runs off on the shoulder p, your first reaction should be to.

More likely to be involved in side-swipe collisions

People who have tunnel vision.

Carbon monoxide

Found in the exhaust of all gasoline engines.

You should get them out into open air

If you find someone unconscious and suspect carbon monoxide.

Fatigue

The most common causeof reduced driver fitness.

Immediate stop, remder assistance, and exchange insurances and information.

If in an accident.

A seriously injured person

Should be moved only if theperson is in extreme danger.

Injured persons

Best treated for shock by using blankets or clothing to keep the body warm.

Avoid moving the victim until medical personnel arruves

If driver appears to have suffered a back or neck injury in a crash.

Give aid to the injured

Your first responsibility when involved in a collision.

The first call for assistance should be to the nearest law enforcement agency

If involved in a collision.

Anger

The emotion that most frequently interferes with driving.

Reasoning and judgement

The human functions that are most likely affected first by alcohol.

Greater than the individual effects of each.

The impairing effects of alcohol taken with another drug.

Driving behavior of young people, when compared with adults

More likely to be influnced by the same amount of alcohol because young people are less experienced amd violating the law.

Allowing time to to elapse without further drinking

Best way to reduce the effects of alcohol.

Rate of one drink per hour

The average person burns alcohol in his system.

The effects of alcohol will be slowed down

If a person eats before or while he is drinking.

When their blood level reaches .08%

Drivers may be charged with driving under the influence.

Drowsiness

A common side effect of anthistaminesand similar cold medicines.

Implied consent law

Law that requires drivers to consent to a breathalyzer if they are suspected of drinking and driving.

Suspension of your license

If you refused a breathalyzer test.

Preventive maintenance

Most important to stop trouble before it develops.

Reduces friction, carries away heat and keeps the engine clean

What oil does for the engine.

Nothing electrical will work

When the battery is dead.

Accelerating slowly, smoothing, and anticipating stops

To improve fuel consumption.

Radial tires

Best gas mileage.

Divide gallons used into miles driven

Correct way to figure miles per gallon of gas.

Road sugns, road rules, vision test, driving test, and inspection of the vehicle

Examination for a Florida operator's license.

A driver must be able to pay for damages and injuries incurred in a collision

To comply with Florida's Financial Responsibility Law.

Make lower grades than other students.

Studies show that as a group, students who own cars

Remove habitual violators from the road

The purpose of Florida's point system.

Keeping an adequate space cushion to the front of your car at all times.

Best strategy for avoiding rear-end collisions.

Safety helmets and protective goggles

What most states require motorcycle operators to wear.

Keep their headlights on anytime they are operating a motorcycle

What motorcyclists should do.

Uncontrolled railroad crossing

Doesn't have a flasher or crossing gate.

Traffic is required to stop in both directions

When a school bus stops on a 2- lane highway.

Seat belts

Has the greatest potemtial for protecting passengers in a head-on collision.

Utilization of lap belts and shoulder harness

Will lower the chances of serious injury in a collision.

Proper adjustment of the head restraint

Even with the middle of the head.

Whiplash injuries

Most effectively prevented by headrests.

Excessive speed

Factor that contributes most frequently to fatal car crashes.

Spot a gap in traffic and enter the expressway at the same speed as cars in the near lane

Best procedure to use when entering an expressway.

Highway hypnosis

May cause drowsiness.

Required to turn on your low-beam headlights

If vision is reduced to less than 1000 feet.

Overdriving your headlights

When you cannot stop within the distance lighted by your headlights.

Keep your headlights in the low beam position

When following a car at night.

Reduced visibility, traction, anf traffic flow

An example of a driving problem during rainfall.

Headlights are required to be on between sunset and sunrise and during twilight hours

In Florida.

Most drivers tend to drive too fast for conditions

After leaving an expressway.