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include 'header.php';
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<h1 id="keep_article">Keep Looking</h1>
<div class="feedback">
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include 'check_answer.php';
quiz_check(13, 15);
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<h3>Stage 1: No Zombies!!</h3>
<p>
Fatigue, impairment, or even a wandering mind as a result of
boredom can render us into zombie mode. We can all agree that
a typical shuffle-and-moan zombie would make a horrible driver.
What helps me to avoid this syndrome is to actively go over
defensive driving techniques in my mind when I find my
thoughts straying too deeply.
</p>
<p>
We should always keep looking, not letting our focus settle in
any one place for more than two seconds. Intersections are the
single location that have the most accidents, so it is
especially important to keep looking here. Scanning before
entering an intersection left, right, and then left again is
crucial, whether from a stopped start or as we roll toward
one.
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<h1 id="com_article">Communicate</h1>
<div class="feedback">
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include 'check_answer.php';
quiz_check(0, 3);
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<h3>Stage 1: We Don't Have Antennas</h3>
<p>
Responsible communication not only includes
properly using the lights and signals of our vehicles, but
utilizing eye contact, hand signals, and visibility techniques
for low profile motorcycles, mopeds, and bicycles. The horn
is probably the most misused communication device in our
current vehicles. Often it is an after-the-fact, long,
punitive honk; an expression of road rage. It is more
valuable as a preventative tool. Covering the horn with
our hand, and using short attention-grabbing honks when
you really think someone <em>needs</em> to see you is a
polite and valid way to say "Hey, look at me, I'm right
here!". Never assume that someone sees you.
</p>
<p>
A good source for reviewing this skill is here: <cite>"<a href="http://www.imakenews.com/kengarffinternal/e_article001731514.cfm?x=b11,0,w">"Key 5: Make Sure They See You" - The Garff Gazette</a></cite>
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include 'header.php';
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<h1 id="foll_article">Following Distance</h1>
<div class="feedback">
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include 'check_answer.php';
quiz_check(7, 9);
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<h3>Stage 1: Humans Need Help With This One</h3>
<p>
One does not have to travel far in a car to notice that
proper following distance is something that humans really
need help with. Googling <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=car+pileup&oq=car+pileup&gs_l=news">"car pile up"</a> shows what might be the result of poor following distance.
</p>
<p>
I remember in my driver's education class,
the teacher had a braking reaction time simulator.
We all took turns testing our reaction time. It was a fun
game, but about as useful as those punching bag arcade games
that test how powerful your punch is. Guiding a vehicle
weighing 4,000 lbs or more around town is not a game, although
it seems many if not most vehicles consider it to be so given
the tightly-bound car packs you will see traveling around town or
on the highways.
</p>
<p>
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<h1 id="dist_article">Distraction</h1>
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include 'check_answer.php';
quiz_check(4, 6);
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<h3>Stage 1: Cell Phones, Cell Phones, Cell Phones and Other
Traditional Distractions</h3>
<p>
The goal with distractions <em>must</em> always be to not
make excuses for allowing them into the driver's seat. It
would be a very unusually disciplined driver that didn't
have room for improvement here. If we honestly apply three
standards to potential behaviors, we will have our answer
as to whether or not it is a distraction.
<ul class="dist_list">
<li><strong>Visual</strong><span class="dist"><i class="fa fa-eye fa-2x"></i></span></li>
<li><strong>Manual</strong><span class="dist"><i class="fa fa-hand-paper-o fa-2x"></i></span></li>
<li><strong>Cognitive</strong><span class="dist"><i class="fa fa-cogs fa-2x"></i></span></li>
</ul>
Cell phones obviously are the primary culprit here, and
usually will be all three types of distraction. Behaviors
need not be all three to be dangerous distractions however.
Any one in and of itself can be unsafe. An LED state highway