1. Information Processing:
Section 4
(Day 2)
Information Processing:
Complex Risk Environments

2. Bell Ringer Write a half page red to red.
Every generation of people is different in important ways. How is your generation different from your parents’ generation? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.
Save these to be turned in with your test! Worth 10% of your grade.

3. Reminder Did you do Section 4 Day 1 quiz??
Bring paper/pen/pencil and notebook
Electronics are for instructional use with permission
Did you do Section 4 Day 1 quiz??
No Excuses why you didn’t take Quizzes 1-6
before test day!! (Quizzes are worth 30% of grade)
Attendance is MANDATORY!! (NO SLEEPING in class)
All notes can be found on Harrisonburg’s staff website:
If you are NOT taking notes in class, please be quiet and ask to use the restroom at the end of class.

4. This is what you are trying to get at the end of class..
“Green Card”
Your Name Here
Harrisonburg High School
H.C.P.S 36 x
03/06/2012
This is what you are trying to get at the end of class..

5. Day 2 Objectives
The students will be able to list reasons for lane changes
The students will be able to explain the steps of passing on expressways
The students will be able to explain reasons of choosing lanes on expressways
The students will be able to identify parts of an expressway exit
Related SOL: DE.3, DE.4, DE.5, DE.6, DE. 7, and DE.20

6. Changing Lanes and Exiting Expressways

7. Reasons for Lane Changes
Exit
Ramp
Entering or exiting
Allowing another driver to enter
Following large or slow-moving vehicles
Lane ahead becomes blocked
Being tailgated
Animals
Passing
Entrance
Ramp

8. Steps to safely change lanes:
Maintain a safe following distance from the vehicles in front of you.
Signal your intention to change lanes.
Check traffic ahead, behind and to the sides (mirrors and head check).
Scan in direction of the BLUE arrows

9. Steps to safely change lanes:
Select a safe gap in traffic.
Re-check blind spots in the direction of the lane change.
Adjust your speed — if clear, steer smoothly to the new lane, if not, wait and cancel your turn signal.
Move one lane at a time.

10. Choosing Lanes on Expressways
Depends on volume of traffic, type of traffic, speed and the planned exit
Right lane conflicts with traffic entering and exiting the expressway
Right Lane
Center Lane
Left Lane

11. Choosing Lanes on Expressways
Right Lane:
Heavier and slower vehicles
Vehicles entering the expressway
Vehicles getting ready to exit
Right Lane
Center Lane
Left Lane
Center Lane:
Long distance or passing
Left Lane:
Higher speed and passing traffic

12. Passing on Expressways
Check traffic ahead, to the sides, and behind
BGE mirror settings.
Signal
Make a head check
Accelerate smoothly
Change lanes smoothly
Cancel signal
Pass and signal to return
Check mirrors and look over shoulder
When both sets of headlights of the vehicle being passed are visible, return to the lane
Adjust speed and/or vehicle position to create space all around your vehicle
The RED line shows path of the red car.
The BLUE arrows show where the driver’s eyes are searching.

13. Being Passed on Expressways
Monitor passing vehicle’s position
Move to lane position 3 to increase space cushion
Do not increase speed—decelerate if necessary
Once passed, create space ahead and behind
move away

14. Other Users
Trucks, trailers, buses, and other large vehicles add additional challenges to driving on multiple lane roadways.
Large and slow moving vehicles have inconsistent speeds when driving uphill and downhill

15. Other Users
Large vehicles may provide a wind blast that can move smaller vehicles when passing.
It is easy to underestimate the amount of time needed to pass larger vehicles

16. Exiting an Expressway

17. Parts of an Expressway Exit
An expressway exit has two components:
Exit
Ramp
The Deceleration Lane — gives the driver the time and space needed to adjust his/her vehicle’s speed to the slower posted ramp speed without disrupting the flow of traffic on the expressway.
The Exit Ramp — allows traffic to enter an adjoining roadway.
Deceleration Lane

18. Identify the Exit Early
Exits are marked with guide signs, usually one to two miles before the exit.
You can determine if an exit is a right exit or a left exit by the position of the exit number on the sign. So, Exit 45A is a right exit, because in this picture the exit number on the upper right-hand side of the sign.
About one-half mile (20- to 30- seconds) before the exit, signal and move to the lane closest to the deceleration lane.

19. Mile Markers
In Virginia, exit numbers correspond with mile marker numbers.

20. Exiting an Expressway
If you miss the exit, do not stop and/or back up on the expressway or ramp.
Take the next exit and turn around.

21. Exiting the Expressway
Signal
Maintain speed while on the expressway
Use mirrors to check behind and to the sides
Check mirror blindzones
Move into deceleration lane
Prepare to decelerate quickly
Exit
Ramp
Deceleration Lane
Deceleration Lane

22. Deceleration Lane
Enter Deceleration Lane by easing over several of the broken lines
Release Accelerator and Cancel Signal
Check Rear and Begin Braking
Deceleration Lane

23. Adjusting Exit Speed Brake to Warning Sign Speed — Check Behind
Scan New Path of Travel to the Front
Search for Traffic Control Signs or Signals
Exit
Ramp
Deceleration Lane

24. Weave Lane
Traffic entering and exiting the expressway uses the same lane.
To avoid a conflict, the driver in the BLUE car entering from the entrance ramp must yield the right-of-way to the driver in the RED car who is leaving the expressway.

25. Weave Lane Conflicts Traffic on exit ramp
Short deceleration lane prior to sharp curve
Very slow ramp speed

26. Don’t forget to take Section 4 Day 2 Quiz on Quia.com
Class Work
Read Page 211 in your drivers education book.
List any four guidelines for managing space on the highway.
Save these to be turned in with your test.
Don’t forget to take Section 4 Day 2 Quiz on Quia.com

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