Lesson 6

Question 1

vehicle operators, passengers or pedestrians

Answer 1

Human

Question 2

3 main elements of the highway mode

Answer 2

1 human element
2 vehicle
3 environment

Question 3

a broad based body knowledge that deals with the driver’s natural abilities, learned capabilities, and his motives and attitudes.

Answer 3

Driver personality

Question 4

can reveal the need for mechanical and visual aids to correct most natural human deficiencies.

Answer 4

Physical and psychological tests

Question 5

offer a formal way to measure traits, feelings, beliefs and abilities that can lead to people’s problems.

Answer 5

Psychological tests

Question 6

have to be acquired by study and practice, and these acquisitions can be tested to indicate any shortcomings.

Answer 6

driver’s learned capabilities

Question 7

To understand why drivers behave the way they can do can be known from their ____ and _____.

Answer 7

motives and attitudes

Question 8

What are the attitudes of a driver?

Answer 8

• Be willing to share the road with other drivers.
• Be alert and aware of the actions of all other road users, including motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians.
• Watch the road ahead, behind and on both sides of your vehicle.
• Anticipate problems early and select the best course of action in case the worst happens.

Question 9

often determine how a driver reacts to a driving situation.

Answer 9

Attitudes

Question 10

may be associated with fear of injury, fear of criticism, and feeling of social responsibility.

Answer 10

Motives

Question 11

Driving personality can be modified seriously and quickly by the use of _____, _____, and _____.

Answer 11

alcohol, narcotics, and drugs

Question 12

______, ______, and ______ can seriously impair driving efficiency

Answer 12

Illness, exhaustion and discomfort

Question 13

The driver can receive useful information regarding the safe control of the vehicle through feeling, seeing, hearing and smelling.

Answer 13

Sensing

Question 14

some of the more common pieces of information that drivers pick up through their senses.

Answer 14

1 Temperature and humidity
2 forces and rates of change
3 vibrations and oscillations connected with the stability of the vehicle

Question 15

A driver experiences forces acting on a vehicle, such as the force of gravity, acceleration, braking deceleration, and cornering acceleration

Answer 15

Feeling

Question 16

the average driver may use ____ of lateral acceleration while making a 90º turn on an urban street at 15mph, but will generally not use more than 0.1 g on a long horizontal curve at 60mph.

Answer 16

0.3g

Question 17

Drivers are strongly influenced, in accelerating or decelerating, by the ________ and ________

Answer 17

speed and conditions of the highway.

Question 18

the most important means of acquiring accurate information on the relationships among perceived objects and on traffic control messages.

Answer 18

Vision

Question 19

drivers can device useful information through their _____ abilities about the vehicle engine; tires; warning sounds such as sirens, horns, bells, radio; and other traffic sounds; can be helpful in preventing collision

Answer 19

Hearing

Question 20

detecting such emergencies as an overheated engine, burning brakes, smoking exhausts and fires.

Answer 20

smelling

Question 21

a person’s process of extracting necessary information from the environment

Answer 21

Perception

Question 22

The driver’s goal of moving from one point to another is achieved through three tasks:

Answer 22

control
guidance
navigation

Question 23

relates to the physical manipulation of the vehicle, through lateral and longitudinal control by steering, accelerating and braking.

Answer 23

Control

Question 24

refers to the driver’s task of selecting a safe speed and path on the highway, which is essentially a decision process.

Answer 24

Guidance

Question 25

Activities that relate to the driver’s ability to plan and execute a trip from origin to destination. The information for which comes from maps, signs and landmarks.

Answer 25

Navigation

Question 26

2 parts of perception

Answer 26

1. Perception delay
2. Apperception interval

Question 27

the time between visibility and point of perception

Answer 27

Perception delay

Question 28

the time required to determine that there is a potential hazard

Answer 28

Apperception interval

Question 29

involves the analytical and decision making portions of the driver’s reaction process

Answer 29

Reaction

Question 30

includes reaction plus the actual control response (e.g. bringing the foot to brake)

Answer 30

Total reaction

Question 31

The driver has two functions in the system:

Answer 31

1 to move from one place to another in a
certain period of time
2 as a guidance system for the vehicle

Question 32

By which the driver learns, decides, and connects his senses with his muscles

Answer 32

mind and nerves

Question 33

By which the driver directs and controls his vehicle and moves his body

Answer 33

bones and muscles

Question 34

gained by reading, instruction, and observation. Tested by quizzing.

Answer 34

knowledge or information

Question 35

gained by practice. once fixed, habits are not very easily changed. Tests show need for training.

Answer 35

skills and habits