Drivers Ed Chapter 5
1. Check your rear zone to make sure no traffic is near 2. Brake gently to see how your vehicle responds
How can you check traction while driving?
children under 12 should sit in the back
How do you best position and use child safety seats?
1. Pick a fixed checkpoint ahead where you think you could stop 2. Count off four seconds 3. Check your vehicles position
How do you use the four second rule?
It causes your vehicle to speed up while going downhill and slow down while going uphill.
How does gravity affect your vehicle?
It makes it possible for your vehicle to grip the road so you can change speed and direction.
How does traction control your vehicle?
Be 10 inches away from the steering wheel
How should a driver and passengers position themselves to benefit from air bags?
speed, vehicle condition, roadway surface, driver ability, antilock braking system, hills, loads
What are factors that affect braking distance?
The weight and the speed
What are the factors affecting energy of motion?
Speed, sharpness of curves, banked curves, load
What are the factors that affect your vehicle in a curve?
speed, weight, distance between impact and stopping
What are three factors that will change your vehicle's force of impact in a collision?
make sure you are in an upright position and the belt is snug across your hips
What is the correct way to adjust safety belts?
the distance your car travels while you make a stop
What is total stopping distance?
split traction, underinflation and overinflation
What three things can reduce traction?
