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Personal Factors That Affect Driving

Personal Factors That Affect Driving. Personal Factors Include:. Alcohol, Drugs, and Fatigue. Good Driving Habits Include:. S earch E valuate E xecute. Search Categories. Motor Vehicles Non-motorized Users Road Conditions Traffic Control Devices. Evaluate. Identify Predict Decide.

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Personal Factors That Affect Driving

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  1. Personal Factors That Affect Driving

  2. Personal Factors Include: Alcohol, Drugs, and Fatigue

  3. Good Driving Habits Include: • Search • Evaluate • Execute

  4. Search Categories • Motor Vehicles • Non-motorized Users • Road Conditions • Traffic Control Devices

  5. Evaluate • Identify • Predict • Decide

  6. Execute the Decision • Speed adjustment • Lane position adjustment • Lane change

  7. Alcohol • ~50% of all traffic deaths due to alcohol related crash • 2/5 involved in alcohol related crash in lifetime

  8. Why? • Who drinks? • Why drink? • Why drink and drive? • Why does it matter? (What is the problem with drinking and driving?)

  9. The problem • Risk: the chance of damage, injury, or loss. • Impairs physical ability to drive • Impairs judgment and reasoning

  10. Why/How does alcohol impair driving? • BAC • Coordination • Ability to scan and see clearly • Ability to judge right from wrong • Overall ability to make reduced risk decisions

  11. Maryland Intoxication Laws • Driving While Impaired BAC of 0.07 • Driving Under the Influence (DUI) BAC of 0.08

  12. What happens if I get caught? • License suspension • License revocation • Fines • Jail time

  13. Drugs • Marijuana • Prescriptions • Over the counter medications

  14. Number One? • Marijuana: other than alcohol, it is the number one drug related to vehicular crashes. • Same problems as alcohol, but sometimes worse. Effects have been shown to last up to 24 hours after exposure.

  15. Other Drugs and Driving • Prescriptions and OTC Medications: May cause drowsiness (e.g. NyQuil) • Synergistic Effect: mixing two or more drugs causes the effects of both to increase (including alcohol)

  16. Fatigue • Physical • Emotional/Mental • Illness-induced

  17. Causes and Effects of Fatigue? • Physical • Mental/Emotional • Illness-induced • Overall effect on driving (Highway Hypnosis)

  18. What’s being done to combat driving fatigue? • Rumble strips • HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lane

  19. Conclusion • There are many factors that affect driving • They are mostly negative • However, something can be done…

  20. What can I do? • Don’t drink and drive • Read medication labels to know whether or not it will make you drowsy • Sleep before driving, change drivers at a regular basis, power nap, HVAC

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