"Definitions" - In Driver's Handbook Flashcards
Extra lane on the side of a high-speed highway that permits you to enter the highway to pick up speed before merging with traffic in through lanes.
Acceleration lane
Motor vehicle that is over 25 years old and is owned solely as a collector’s item for participation in club activities, tours, parades, and similar use, but not to be used for general transportation.
Antique Vehicle
Fire, police, chartered rescue squad, ambulance, and other emergency vehicles.
Authorized Emergency Vehicle
Areas on both sides of vehicles where you cannot see without turning your head.
Blind Spots
The amount of alcohol in the bloodstream. For drivers over the age of 21, it is against the law to drive if the BAC is 0.08% or higher. For drivers under the age of 21, it is against the law to drive if the BAC is 0.02% or higher.
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
Motor vehicle designed for carrying more than seven (7) passengers and used primarily in the transportation of persons for compensation.
Bus
Any person who drives a commercial motor vehicle for any purpose on public streets or highways.
Commercial Driver
Any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 26,001 pounds or more or designed to carry 16 or more passengers, including the driver, or to transport hazardous materials in any weight class requiring the vehicle to be placarded.
Commercial Motor Vehicle
Traffic lane adjacent to regular traffic lanes that permits vehicles leaving the highway to reduce speed without obstructing through traffic.
Deceleration Lane
Highway with separate roadways for traffic proceeding in opposite directions, separated by an unpaved strip of land, a raised median, or other physical barrier.
Divided Highway
Any person who drives, operates, or is in physical control of a motor vehicle, in any place open to the general public for purposes of vehicular traffic, or is required to hold a driver’s license.
Driver
A permit or license issued by this state to a person that authorizes the person to drive a motor vehicle of a specific class or classes subject to any restriction or endorsement contained therein.
Driver’s License
Driving any motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or controlled substances.
Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
Motor vehicle designed and used primarily in agricultural situations for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry.
Farm Tractor
Space cushion between your vehicle and the vehicle directly ahead of you.
Following Distance
A 3-phase graduated licensing program, for ages 15 to 18, that allows young drivers to develop their driving skills and self-confidence in a series of safe, measured steps. Each phase has its own requirements and restrictions.
Graduated Driver’s License (GDL)
Entire width between boundary lines maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel.
Highway
Vehicle that is designed for, or adapted to, agricultural purposes and used by the owner primarily in the conduct of agricultural operations
Implement of Husbandry
West Virginia state law provides that each licensed driver agrees to take a chemical test if charged with driving under the influence. Failure to submit to this test will result in suspension of the driving privilege for at least one (1) year.
Implied Consent Law
System of interconnecting roadways in conjunction with one (1) or more grade separations, providing for the exchange of traffic between two (2) or more roadways on different levels
Interchange
Area common to two (2) or more highways that meet at or near right angles, whether or not one highway crosses another.
Intersection
Low-speed vehicle means a four-wheeled motor vehicle specifically manufactured as a low-speed vehicle so designated on the manufacturer’s certificate of origin (MCO). Modified golf carts and ATVs do not meet the definition. Low-speed vehicles may only be operated on private roads, on public roads, and streets within the corporate limits of a municipality where the speed limit is not more than twenty-five (25) miles per hour.
Low-Speed Vehicle
Vehicles entering moving lanes of traffic from adjacent lanes on the left or right.
Merging Traffic
Motorcycle or motor-driven-type cycle that is equipped with two (2) or three (3) wheels, foot pedals to permit peddling, and an independent power source providing a maximum of two (2) horsepower. The maximum engine displacement is 50 cc (cubic centimeters) and the maximum speed is 30 mph.
Moped
Motor vehicle, excluding a tractor, with a seat for the use of the rider, and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground.
Motorcycle
Motorcycles, including every motor scooter with a motor that does not exceed 250 cubic centimeters, excluding mopeds.
Motor-driven cycle
A vehicle that is self-propelled but not operated upon rails.
Motor Vehicle
A person who drives a motor vehicle, is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle, or is steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle, upon a highway.
Operator
Any person traveling on foot.
Pedestrian
When a driver’s license and all privileges to drive a motor vehicle on public highways are terminated and shall not be renewed. Under certain circumstances, an application for a new driver’s license may be presented and acted upon by the DMV.
Revocation
Privilege of the immediate use of the highway.
Right-of-way
Portion of highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Roadway
Motor vehicle owned by a public governmental agency or privately owned and operated for the transportation of children to and/or from school.
School Bus
When a driver’s license and all privileges to drive a motor vehicle on public highways are temporarily withdrawn.
Suspension
A handheld device used to access a wireless telephone service or a text messaging device.
Wireless Communications Device
