Driver's Education Chapter 2

1. BELLRINGER
List 3 Skills or Abilities
you will gain from this
driver education course.
What are some factors that
might affect your ability to
drive safely?

2. What factors cause young
drivers to be over-
represented in crash
statistics?

3. 2
Chapter

Administrative and

Traffic Laws

4. Administrative laws
Establish the procedures for
issuing driver’s licensing,
learner’s permits, registering
motor vehicles, financial
responsibilities, safety
equipment and car care.

5. Control who get’s and
keeps a driver’s license
and regulate vehicle
ownership and
operation

6. Administrative Laws
•States can suspend or
revoke licenses.
•Suspension: Temporarily
take away licenses for a
specified period of time.
Usually 30-60 days.

7. Revoke: Take license away, for
a year or more
States decide to suspend or
revoke based upon a point
system, which assigns each
driver points for violations.

8. Point system

Is put on driving
record when
violations occur.
Violations=points
*Points can be
removed if you
take driving
courses.

9. Certificate ofTitle
-

Proofyou own the
car.

10. Vehicle Registration
Must be renewed every year. Must
register it after you purchase a vehicle.

11. Insurance -
Must have liability to drive. Is
required by all states!

12. Right-of-Way Rules
Right of way is always given by someone-
where you allow someone else to
proceed first.
Yield to an emergency vehicles
Yield to pedestrians
Yield to someone who is blind carrying a
white cane or using a guide dog
Page 27 & 28: Situations

13. Other right of way situations
Yield to vehicles who are still in an
intersection

14. Yield to oncoming vehicles if you
are turning left.

15. At a four way stop sign-yield to the vehicle
that stopped first. If you arrive at the same
time, yield to the vehicle to the right.

16. Speed limit signs post the maximum
speed for the best weather conditions.
A fixed speed limit-do not change and
you must obey what it says.

17. Advisory speed limit-interrupts
your normal driving speed to
advise you of conditions where
your speed must change.
The maximum speed is posted.

18. More than ½ of all fatal crashes
occur on roads 55mph or more
The higher the speed
1. The less reaction time you have
2.The more time and distance it takes to
change directions
3. The greater the chance the car will skid
or roll
4. The greater the chances you are in a
collision, cause injury

19. High-Risk Behaviors
1.Driving while impaired-drugs &/or
alcohol

Illegal per se law
- makes
it unlawful for a person to operate a
motor vehicle with BAC above a
certain level.

Implied Consent Law
-
when receiving their license agreed to
take a BAC test.

20. 2.
Aggressive driving
-
inappropriate speed, tailgating,
failing to stay in right lane unless to
pass, frequent and unsafe lane
changes & passing on the shoulder.

21. High Risk
Behaviors
3.
Reckless driving
-
Driver intentionally drives in a
dangerous manner, driver knows
their action puts others at risk, and
conditions cause increased risk.
Example: traffic

22. Willful and Wanton
Legal terms used in reckless driving
violations. It means the person
purposefully and willfully
committed an act without regard for
the rights and safety of others.
Vehicular homicide-term used
whenever death is caused due to
reckless driving.

23. 4. Inattention and distractions

24. 7 states have enacted laws
restricting the use of cell phones
while driving.
Failure to pay
attention while
driving contributed
to 3.15
million
accidents in 2002

25. Implied Consent
Law
After you receive a driver’s license
you are automatically agreeing that
if you are stopped for being under
the influence the police can request
that you take a breathalyzer test for
being drunk.

26. Quiz Tomorrow