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The Driving Task

The Driving Task. The Highway Transportation System Your Driving Task IPDE Process Your Driving Responsibilities Your License. The Highway Transportation System 3 parts include: people, vehicles, and roadways

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The Driving Task

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  1. The Driving Task The Highway Transportation System Your Driving Task IPDE Process Your Driving Responsibilities Your License

  2. The Highway Transportation System • 3 parts include: people, vehicles, and roadways • Purpose is to move people and cargo from one place to another in a safe, efficient manner. • People are roadway users and can either be driving, walking, or riding. • Vehicles that use the HTS include mopeds, motorcycles, cars, vans, tractor-trailers, buses, campers, and farm equipment. • Roadways can include dirt roads up to multilane expressways. Conditions on these roadways are constantly changing. • Federal, State, and Local governments regulate the HTS. • The vehicle code are the laws that govern the HTS.

  3. Your Driving Task • The driving task involves social skills because you must interact with people. • You must extensively practice the physical skills required for driving so they become natural habits. • Low-risk driving is mainly a mental-task that involves decision making. • You must develop habits for using knowledge and visual skills, obeying traffic laws, judging time and space, and anticipating how your car will respond.

  4. IPDE Process • The IPDE process is a defensive driving process. • The IPDE Process involves four steps. • Identify important information in the ongoing driving scene. • Predict when and where possible points of conflict will develop. • Decide when , where, and how to communicate, adjust speed, or change position to avoid conflict. • Execute the right actions to prevent conflict. • Other systems that can be used in conjunction with IPDE include the Smith System and Zone Control System.

  5. Your Driving Responsibilities • Driving is a PRIVELAGE based on the assumption that you will be a responsible traffic citizen and obey all traffic laws. • Your attitude toward driving will affect your driving habits. Avoid reckless driving (an obnoxious and dangerous way of getting attention) and road rage (an extremely dangerous and negative attitude). • Collisions can cause the HTS to break down. • Driver error is the most common cause of collision. These errors include breaking laws, not observing weather conditions, following too closely, driving to fast, not wearing safety belts, driving under the influence, and driving while tired. • Drivers also have the burden of financial responsibility (fuel and insurance) and environmental responsibility (maintenance and fuel efficiency.

  6. Your Driver’s License • Inexperience can be deadly for teens. 41% of teens killed in collisions were in single car collisions. • The first stage of drivers license is the graduated license (progress in stages). • Learners permit stage requires supervision while driving. • Intermediate stage can require certain limits on driving privileges. • Full-Privilege license with no operating limitations. • License issuance also involves implied consent, that is by signing your license you agree to take an alcohol test whenever requested. Refusal will result in loss of license.

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