Unit 2 Flashcards
What are the most important things to check before getting into your car?
Behind your car for children, animals, bikes, or anything you can’t see backing out of your driveway.
Walk around the car and look for low or damaged tires, scrateches/dents.
Where is the largest area around your car that a driver can’t see?
Behind. Up to 30 feet without a backup camera, sometimes more depending on the vehicle.
How can you adjust your seatbelt so it can protect you as much as possible?
Low across your hips (don’t slouch), flat (check to see if it is twisted), tight (pull where the seatbelt comes across your chest to tighten). Most newer cars have seatbelt pretensioners that tighten the seatbelt in a crash.
How should you adjust your headrest?
Middle of the headrest behind the middle of your head. Get in the habit of pushing your head back to check the height of the headrest when making pre-drive checks and adjustments. Pull up with both hands, push button where left headrest post goes into the seat to lower. Make sure your upper back touches the seat so your head is close enough to the headrest. If you lean forward when you drive adjust the seat tilt so it touches your upper back.
How far from the steering wheel should a driver be? Why?
At least 10 inches so if the air bag deploys it won’t hit you. This is also a good distance for steering wheel control. For most people, when you grab the sides (9 and 3 o’clock) of the steering wheel and tuck your elbows into your ribs is about 10 inches.
*when your extend your arm across steering wheel your wrist should hang off? Is this the general rule that jennings uses?
Where should the steering wheel be when properly adjusted (height)?
The steering wheel should be adjusted so the air bag will deploy out toward the driver’s chest and not up towards their face. Lowering the steering wheel also helps with hand-over-hand steering, so the driver doesn’t have to reach as high. A good general rule is the top of the steering wheel even with the top of the driver’s shoulder. The steering wheel in newer cards adjust up and down as well as in and out (towards or away from the dash). Adjust the steering wheel after adjusting the seat.
What are the laws for children and car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.
[Infants must be restrained in a rear-facing car seat until they are 1 year old and 20 pounds (at least).]
The AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) recommends:
Infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing car safety seat as long as possible, until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their seat. Most convertible seats have limits that will allow children to ride rear-facing for 2 years or more.
Once they are facing forward, children should use a forward-facing car safety seat with a harness for as long as possible, until they reach the height and weight limits for their seats. Many seats can accommodate children up to 65 pounds or more.
When children exceed these limits, they should use a belt-positioning booster seat until the vehicle’s lap and shoulder seat belt fits properly (without a booster seat). This is often when they have reached at least 4 ft 9 inches in height and are 8 to 12 years old.
[When children are old enough and large enough to use the vehicle seat belt alone, they should always use lap and shoulder seat belts for optimal protection.]
All children younger than 13 years should be restrained in the rear seats of vehicles for optimal protection (13 can sit in front).
An unrestrained child ticket is $195. At 14 years of age the child, not the driver, gets the ticket.
What are the pre-drive procedures? (SMILE)
Seat (height, distance from pedals and tilt, headrest), seatbelt, steering wheel
Mirrors
Instrument panel (Check for orange or red lights and fuel level)
Lights on (Daytime running lights during the day and low beams when raining or getting dark)
Emergency brake (red brake light)
When parked along the curb and entering the roadway, what three things should you do? (SMOG-lang change procedure)
SMOG
Signal
Mirrors (rear then side)
Over the shoulder (blind spot check–can talk about rock n roll too I think)
Go (only after making all of your checks and knowing it’s clear)
When backing up, what should you do to make sure you are seeing everything behind you?
Check all of the areas behind your car first before backing. Check left for cars and pedestrians coming from the left, then right for cars and pedestrians coming from the right, and straight back out the back window for pedestrians and cars behind you backing up. As you back, keep checking these three areas every 2 or 3 seconds. People will walk/drive behind you as you are backing out, so keep checking.
What is the shape and color of a general warning sign?
Diamond shape and yellow. Other types of warning signs can be other shapes and colors.
What is the most important thing to remember about signs?
You have to always be searching for them as you drive. Signs are meant to make driving safer and easier. The signs you don’t see make you less safe. Activity: Read aloud every sign you see as you drive for 5 minutes or so.
When must you yield the right-of-way when you have a green light (with no stop/yield sign)?
What is right-of-way? Traffic laws are written as who must yield the right-of-way, giving the other vehicle (or pedestrian) the right to proceed.
Always yeild the right-of-way to pedestrians, emergency vehicles with lights and sirens on, and school buses with stop sign out and red lights flashing (unless separated by a median). Drivers must yield to oncoming traffic when turning left, turning right on red, at T intersections where your street ends, entering traffic when parked next to the curb. At an uncontrolled intersection a driver must yield to the car on the right, no matter who gets there first (NOT the same as a 4-way stop). Understand that right-of-way is a gift, which means someone must give you the right-of-way in order for you to safely proceed. You might be right (by right-of-way laws), but you might be dead right. Always check to make sure other drivers are giving you the right-of-way (defensive driving); don’t assume they will just because they should. Most collisions happen because a driver fails to yield the right-of-way.
When you are the first car in line at a red light, what should yo do when the light turns green?
Always look first before you decide to go in any driving situation. WHen the light turns green, quickly look left and right for pedestrians and cars that might be in or entering the intersection. If you get hit from the side by a car running a red light, you have very little protection. ALways remember that your eyes keep you safe when you drive,. Always know and look where your potential hazards come from.
When you come to a stop behind another car, what should you be able to see? Why?
The back tires is a good general rule to build in some space for the following reasons:
If you slide in the winter, you decrease your chances of hitting the car in front of you. If you stop and get rear-ended, you are less likely to rear-end the car in front of you. If a car in front of you stalls, you can pull into the lane beside you to go around them. When the car in front of you goes, you have a built-in safer following distance from the start. If the car in front of you starts to go and then quickly stops (called a false start), you’re less likely to rear end them.
What are the good reasons for stopping closer to the car in front of you (or following close). There aren’t any, so stay back.
