1. Driving, Mobility and Laws
UNIT 1
Driving, Mobility and Laws

2. CHAPTER 1 Driving and Mobility

3. Lesson 1: Mobility and Driver Education
Purpose of Driver Education:
To learn the skills necessary to be a good driver
To become an alert, knowledgeable and skillful driver
To understand the problems of driving

4. What Can You Gain From a Driver Education Course

5. Useful knowledge:
How your personality, emotions and maturity affect driving
How to maneuver and control a vehicle to minimize risk
How alcohol and drugs impair your ability to drive and the knowledge of the penalties
How to interpret traffic laws, rules of the road, signs and signals and roadway markings
An awareness of limiting factors for yourself and your vehicle
How a vehicle works
A knowledge of what to do in an emergency situation

6. Managing Visibility, Time and Space
Awareness Of Limiting Factors:
The foolish feeling that there is little or no risk involved in driving if a collision occurs
An illness or injury or the side effects of medicine
Your emotional state at the time you are driving
The effects of alcohol and other drugs

7. Why is Driver Education Important for Young Drivers?
Crash – when a motor vehicle hits another motor vehicle, a pedestrian, an animal, a bicyclist or a fixed object

8. Factors of Over-Representation
Young drivers lack experience
Drivers aged 15 to 20 are only 7% of the driving population but are involved in 14% of motor vehicle crashes each year.
The more you practice, the more experience you will gain and the better you will be to handle different situations

9. Young drivers drive at dangerous times and transport passengers
Driving at night is more dangerous than driving during the day for ALL drivers
The probability of a crash also increases with each passenger riding with the young driver
Young drivers drive differently
Speed, not pay attention, weaker visual search and space management skills, less likely to use seatbelts

10. Lesson 2: The Highway Transportation System
Highway Transportation System (HTS)
Motor vehicles, streets and highways, and people
How is The HTS Regulated?
Federal law established a maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour on all U.S. roadways in 1974
In 1995, the law was changed to allow individual states to set their own highway speed limits
National Highway Safety Act
Allows each state to make its own laws regarding traffic safety

11. You will share the road with over 194 million licensed drivers and 55 million bicyclists in the United States

12. Lesson 3: The Risks of Driving
Are Drivers Actually at Risk?
Motor vehicle crashes kill 42% of all people who die between the ages of 15 and 20
In any given year, the likelihood of your being in involved in a crash is about 1 in 9
More than 57% of all fatal crashes involve only ONE vehicle

13. Reducing The Risks Keep your vehicle in top condition
Anticipate the actions of others
Drive defensively
Protect yourself and others
Wear seatbelts
Use headlights even during daylight hours
Drive at the safest speed depending on the conditions
Drive solidly built vehicles equipped with airbags
Drive only when you’re in sound physical and mental condition
Make a conscious effort to develop your driving skills

14. Visibility, Time and Space
What you see from behind the wheel and how well you see it
Also refers to the ability of others to see you
When driving, less visibility mean more risk
Time
Ability to judge your speed and the speed of other vehicles and highway users
How long it will take your vehicle or another vehicle to stop or intersect paths

15. Space Refers to distance
You must keep a margin of space between your vehicle and other vehicles when you drive
This margin of space allows you plenty of room to safely maneuver or to stop if necessary

16. Lesson 3: The Costs of Driving
Costs are measured in dollars and lives
The basic costs of mobility can be grouped into two categories:
Crash costs
Non crash costs

17. Crash Costs
In the U.S., the total cost of motor-vehicle crashes has been estimated at more than $230 billion every year.
In the U.S. more than 42,000 people die each year as a result of motor-vehicle crashes.

18. Non Crash Costs Operating costs Fixed costs Environmental costs
Maintenance
Gas
Oil
Tires
Fixed costs
Car insurance
Licensing
Environmental costs
Air pollution
Hazardous waste dumping