Ch. 5 Quiz

What searching range do you use when trying to avoid last minute decisions?

12-15 second range.

If you have to handle multiple hazards at one time, you should do what?

Adjust speed to separate hazards.

Where should you practice OVSP?

As a passenger in the vehicle.

How can you prepare to deal with other HTS users?

Assume others will make mistakes.

What are you doing when identifying where possible points of conflict will occur?

IPDE process.

What are you practicing when you change speed, change direction, or communicate?

IPDE process.

If you need to change direction, what should you do in order to not get boxed in?

Leave yourself an out.

What should you do to identify clues and analyze the situation before the zone becomes closed?

Look far ahead as you drive.

What are you doing when measuring and comparing traffic situations?

Making driving judgements.

What does it mean to compromise space?

Minimize hazards.

What are you doing when glancing continually and quickly?

Scanning.

What is a method of organizing space zones around your vehicle?

Zone Control System.

What are some roadway and environment risk factors?

construction, sharp curb, and ice.

What kind of task is the driving task primarily?

mental.

What should you do when the roadway is narrowing from a multi-lane to a single-lane?

move into the through lane as soon as possible.

What is the process of searching critical areas of the traffic environment in a regular sequence?

orderly visual search pattern.

What should you do when driving down a residential street and see a parked vehicle with someone in the drivers seat and front wheels turned towards the road?

predict they will enter you lane and take foot off the accelerator and hover over the brake.

What are the three searching ranges?

target area range, 12-15 second range, and 4-6 second range.