Snad/Gravel 🏖
- Try to avoid braking and accelerating
- Reduce your speed
- Slow down and increase following distance
- Reduce your speed
- Brake earlier and softer
- If you have to stop → reduce speed before your wheels hit the sand
Fallen Leaves 🍂
- Brake earlier to slow down gradually before you reach them
- Brake firmly at first, then more gradually towards the end of your stop
- Slow down before you reach the leaves
- Accelerate gently when coming out of the turn to avoid losing traction
- Don’t drive over leaves (they can kind many dangers)
- Never park on piles of leaves alongside the road
- When wet leaves are slick as ice
- Changes traction
- Exhaust system gets hot enough to ignite leaves
Truck Crossings 🚚
- Avoid braking, steering, and accelerating through a crossing where sand, gravel, or mud on pavement
- Hover your foot over the brake while going over mud or gravel
- Scan for trucks or other vehicles
- Try to keep your steering wheel as straight as possible
- Cast through the crossing (no gas or brake)
- Get back to speed when you are on clean pavement
Potholes 🕳
- Treat it like a speed bump
- Check your rearview mirror and slow down
- Foot off brake and let the car go
- Make sure both front and back tires roll over the hazard
- Return to normal speed once your rear tires pass it
Unpaved roads 🛣️
- Drive cautiously and increase following distance
- Avoid ruts
Desert 🏜️
- Have your car inspected by a reliable mechanic before heading out
- Drive at night
- Pull over and roll up windows in a dust storm
- Hot asphalt can be slippery
Mountain Driving ⛰️
- There can be a lack of oxygen
- Downshift for steep grades
- Watch out for steep drops
- Avoid vapor locks
Rain 🌧️
- Foggy windshield
- Turn the vent to front windshield
- Turn on A/c and the heat
- Turn off air recirculation
- If you can only see 400 feet ahead, keep your speed under 50 mph
- If you can only see 200 feet ahead keep speed under 30 mph
Hydroplanning 💧
- Avoid it (keep speed under 35 mph)
- Your brakes will not work
Wind 🌬
- Reduce your speed
- Increase following distance
- Hold the wheel firmly
- Steer against it
- Scan for things
- Don’t be next to a truck
Types of Glare ☀️
- Headlights
- If the driver has their high beams on, use the day/night switch on your rearview mirror to regain visibility