Driver Education

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Driver Education

• Responsible Driving
• Chapter 1-Driving Mobility
• Notes

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What Can You Gain from a Driver Education Course?

• As young adults you want to have mobility - the
  ability to move or be moved. The opportunity to
  have a drivers license gives you independence.
• Young drivers are involved in 14 of all motor
  vehicle crashes, and most of these crashes
• can be prevented. Fatal crash involvement is
  38.
• You will be sharing the road with 194
• million other licensed drivers nationwide. NJ
  alone has 5.1 million licensed drivers.

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What will you learn in Driver Education?

• Information and skills about driving
• Understanding the importance of being alert
• Gain knowledge about driving as a life-long skill
• How to prevent crashes

A crash is when a motor vehicle hits another
motor vehicle, pedestrian, animal, bicyclist or
any fixed object.
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What will you learn in Driver Education
continued?

• More mobility means spending more money
• Being able to handle a wide range of driving
  situations
• Understand some of the problems of driving
• Like awareness of limiting factors (such as risk,
  illness, injury, side effects of medication and
  emotional state of the driver

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Driver Education is taught to help PREVENT
accidents among young drivers

• Lack of experience is prevented by gaining
  experience with parents/instructors in different
  driving environments.
• Knowing the different driving dangerous times
• Limiting the transporting of passengers
• Knowing that young drivers, drive differently
  such as speeding, distractions, space awareness,
  wearing seatbelts etc.

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Highway Transportation System

• The system itself includes
• Roadways
• People
• Motor Vehicles
• There are more than 194 million licensed drivers
  using the HTS and 55 million pedestrians and
  bicyclists who use the HTS as well.

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The Highway Transportation system (HTS)

• The HTS is regulated by the federal, state and
  local governments working together to make it
  safer
• They set uniform standards for vehicles and
  safety
• Federal law established in 1974 said the maximum
  speed limit is 55 mph. In 1995, the law was
• changed that each state can
• set their own highway
• speed limits.

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The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

• Requires automakers to build certain safety
  features into their vehicles (examples - safety
  belts and shatterproof windows)
• Requires manufacturers to correct vehicle defects
  known as recalls.
• Recalls are very well know in todays society,
  can you think of any recently?

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The National Highway Safety ActSigned into law
by President Lyndon B. Johnson

• President Johnson signed this act into law,
  September 9, 1966.
• The reason for this law is because of the rising
  number of fatalities on American highways between
  1960 and 1965.
• There were more Americans killed on the HTS than
  all the wars combined prior to that point of time.

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The National Highway Safety ActSigned into law
by President Lyndon B. Johnson

• Establishes guidelines for State Federal motor
  vehicle safety programs.
• Gives authority to each state to monitor
• Vehicle registration inspection
• Driver licensing regulations driving hours
• Traffic laws traffic court
• Highway construction maintenance

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The Risks of Driving

• Risk is the possibility of personal injury or
  damage to vehicles property
• In a given year, 1 in 9 teenage drivers will be
  involved in a crash
• Teens represent 14 of all drivers yet are
  involved in 38 of fatal motor vehicle crashes
  involving people between the ages of 15 - 20.
  (2006)
• Anyone who operates or gets into a motor vehicle
  is potentially at risk
• Do you know of some ways we can reduce our risk?

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Reducing the Risks

• Keep your vehicle in top condition
• Anticipate the actions of other roadway users
• Protect yourself other roadway users
• Drive only when you are in sound physical
  mental condition
• Make a conscious effort to develop your driving
  skills
• Practice, practice, practice!

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Visibility, Time, Space

• Visibility - what you can see from behind the
  wheel and how well you see it.
• Time - ability to judge your speed and speed of
  other vehicles.
• Space - refers to distance, keep a margin of
  space between your vehicle other vehicles. AKA
  the space cushion!