1. Chapter 1 The Driving Task
Driver Education
Chapter 1
The Driving Task

2. Highway Transportation System
The Highway Transportation System(HTS) – has three parts: people, vehicles, and roadways. The purpose of the HTS is to move people and cargo from one place to another in a safe, efficient, and economical manner.

3. Parts of the HTS
People
Roadway users – are people who use the HTS by walking, driving, or riding

4. Parts of the HTS Vehicles
Any vehicle that uses the HTS ranging from a moped to a tractor trailer
Roadways
Any road ranging from a dirt road to a multilane expressway

5. Regulating the HTS Laws are passed to make up the vehicle code
Enforcement agencies assure that laws are obeyed
Motor vehicle departments set rules to assure that driver and vehicle standards are met
Courts decide whether drivers charged with violating the laws are guilty or innocent
Highway traffic engineer’s plan, build, and maintain the complex system of roadways

6. Your Driving Task
Driving Task – includes all the social, physical, and mental skills required to drive
Use knowledge and visual skills
Obey traffic laws
Judge time and space
Anticipating how your car will respond under normal and emergency conditions

7. Driving Task
Social Skills - Driving requires you to interact successfully with people
Physical Skills – You must learn the physical skills of driving so well that they become natural habit. Beginning drivers need to concentrate heavily on the physical skills of driving. More experienced drivers can focus on the social and mental aspects of driving

8. Driving Task
Mental Skills – IPDE Process – is a process of seeing, thinking, and responding
Identify – important information in the ongoing driving scene
Predict – when and where possible points of conflict will develop
Decide – when, where , and how to communicate, adjust speed, and change position to avoid conflict
Execute – the right action to prevent conflict

9. Driving Responsibilities
Driving is a privilege not a right. The privilege is based on the assumption that you will be responsible and obey traffic laws.
If you do not handle this responsibility, you have the power to ruin your life and the life of others

10. Collisions
A collision occurs when a vehicle conflicts with and hits another object
Collision is a more accurate term than accident. Because accident implies that something just happened by chance
Collision are a major cause of injury and death

11. Causes of Collisions Driver error is the most common
Following a vehicle to closely
Driving to fast for conditions
Driving after using drugs or alcohol
Driving while very tired

12. Compare the Odds 1 in 4,600,000 people will be killed in a plane crash
1 in 40,000 you will be killed by fire
1 in 125 you will be killed in car collision

13. Environmental responsibility
Air pollution
Chemical spills
How can you manage this?
Buy fuel efficient vehicles
Reducing driving by car pooling or public transportation

14. Your Driver’s License
Licensing Process – is designed to make sure that only safe drivers are allowed on the roads by requiring written, physical, and driving exams
Graduated Driver Licensing Program – Series of stages that a young driver must go through to get full privilege license

15. Your Driver’s License Learner’s Permit Stage
At 16 the student receives permit to drive when supervised by an adult(21) with 3 years experience
Permit must be held for at least six months and the student must have no collisions or violation during this time
No driving between 11:01 PM and 5:00 AM
Passengers can be from the same household, but only one other person

16. Your Driver’s License Provisional Driver’s License
No driving between 12:01am and 5:00am
Passengers must be from the driver’s household and 1 other person
If the driver is 21 no passenger or hour restrictions apply

17. Implied Consent Programs
In most states you are asked to sign a statement when you get your license saying that you agree to take an alcohol test on request
If you refuse, you will lose your license