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Master the Highway: Your Complete Guide to Safe Driving

Learn about the Highway Transportation System, driving responsibilities, IPDE process, and financial obligations. Understand your role as a part of the system and enhance your driving skills.

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Master the Highway: Your Complete Guide to Safe Driving

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  1. Unit 1 The Driving Task

  2. Chapter 1 You Are The Driver

  3. Vocabulary • Collision • GDL • Highway Transportation System • IPDE Process • Risk • Zone Control System • Roadway Users • Low Risk Driving • Operating Costs • Fixed Costs

  4. 1.1 You Are Part Of The System

  5. Introduction • There is risk involved in everything that you do. • Driving an automobile carries a great deal of risk, because you are interacting with millions of other HTS users everyday.

  6. The Highway Transportation System • HTS • 3 Parts • Roadway Users • Vehicles • Roadways • From simple rural to urban expressways • Most complex form of transportation

  7. HTS – Roadway Users • Walking, driving, riding • Most operate in a safe manner • Some do not • Alcohol/drugs • Tired • Distracted • Ill

  8. HTS - Vehicles • Mopeds • Motorcycles • Cars • Vans • Trucks • Farm equipment • Construction equipment • Semi-tractor/trailer

  9. HTS - Roadways • Dirt lanes to urban expressways • Weather conditions • Road conditions

  10. Regulating The HTS • Enforcement agencies (State Police) • Motor vehicle departments (IDOT) • Courts • Engineers (Build Roadways)

  11. 1.2 Your Driving Task

  12. Introduction • Driving Task – Mental, social, and physical skills required to drive. • Obey traffic laws • Judging time and space • Anticipating

  13. Mental Skills • Safe, low-risk driving • Always monitor the roadway!! • Stay alert for unpredictable actions! • Always protect yourself and your passengers!!!

  14. Social Skills • Must interact safely with people • Everyone has different skills and abilities • You must be able to interact with all of these people

  15. Physical Skills • Beginning drivers struggle with the physical skills of driving • Steering • Braking • Scanning • Once these become habit, you can focus on Social and Mental skills

  16. IPDE Process • Identify – important information • Predict – when and where conflict • Decide – when, where, and how to avoid conflict • Execute – prevent conflict

  17. Zone Control System-a method for managing space around your car. • Low Risk Driving-allows you to actively avoid hazardous situations.

  18. 1.3 Your Driving Responsibilities

  19. Introduction • Driving is a privilege, not a right • You must be a responsible citizen, and obey traffic laws

  20. Legal Responsibilities • Laws-must obey all traffic laws • Collisions-these occur anytime a vehicle hits another object. • Also known as crashes…

  21. Collision or Accident? • Collision is more accurate than accident • Accidents happen by chance • Collisions happen as a result of some action

  22. Causes of Collisions • Breaking laws • Following vehicles too closely • Driving too fast for conditions • Seatbelts • Driving under the influence • Driving while tired

  23. Financial Responsibilities • Operating Costs • Fuel • Oil • Tires • Fixed Costs • Price of the vehicle • Licensing fees • Insurance

  24. Financial Responsibilities • Crash Costs -Damage -Time away from work -Medical fees

  25. 1.4 Your Driver’s License

  26. Graduated Driver’s License • Requires young drivers to progress through a series of licensing stages. • Learner’s Permit Stage – Drivers Age 15 must be supervised by adult with license • Intermediate License Stage-must complete learners permit stage and have passed BTW course • Full-Privilege License Stage–complete Intermediate stage w/no violations…

  27. Driver Education and Your License • Decision making • Attitude • Seat belts • Statistics about drinking and driving • Always work to improve your skills

  28. Organ Donors • Fill out declarations portion of your license or sign an organ donor card. • Implied Consent Law-if you are stopped under suspicion of drinking and driving and you are 16, you consent for the police officer to give you a test for drinking and driving!

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