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Safe Driving Techniques
This category is for all questions and answers about the do’s and don’ts of the road, as well as tips for safe driving skills.
2,050 Questions
Does forfeiting the right of way to other drivers prevent accidents?
In California, forfeiting the right of way to other drivers does not prevent accidents?
How does a seat belt affect your momentum during an accident?
Contrary to popular belief, seat belts are not a cure-all for preventing injuries in car accidents. if you hit something, when the car decelerates, while your outside body is part of the car due to the seat belt, your insides still move forward at the speed the car was traveling. if you crash while going fast enough and the car decelerates fast enough, your insides will crash into the inside of your body (your liver collides with the inside of your abdominal wall, your heart/lungs collides with the inside of your rib cage, your brain collides with the inside of your skull, etc) just like your whole body would crash into the dashboard without your seat belt on, causing internal injury, even if the outside of your body doesn't come in contact with the interior of the car in any way.
S - Scan
I - Identify
P - Predict
D - Decide
E - Execute
Why is responsibility important for driving?
Because you are operating a deadly weapon that is capable of killing you, your passengers and other road users.
Should you use cruise control in the rain?
No , absolutely not ( if you hit a puddle , which will slow the car down , the cruise control will
try to accelerate the car to maintain the set speed )
It's not recommended to use the cruise control in the rain. Normally, you use the cruise control on the highways. When it's raining you need complete control on the car and be fully alert.
( NO ) if you hit a puddle that slows the car down then the cruise control will accelerate the car
better not it could cause the car to accelerate at the wrong time and cause loss of control
Why do countries have left hand and right hand driving?
Click the link for an very good explanation of why this is the case.
How do you enter traffic flow?
Do not stop on the ramp get on the gas and go if you have some where you can go at all and use your turn signal.
How quickly does the average person perceive and then react to a road hazard?
The average is from 1 to 1.5 seconds.
What if your mother is sure that you were driving too fast because she knows?
It's called female intuition. Beware.
According to QualityPlanning, a research firm that works for insurance companies, men are more than three times likely to engage in risky behaviors like speeding and more than 3 times more likely to have a vehicular crash. More men total a vehicle from the crashes they have. This is why insurance rates are higher for men, beginning from the youngest driving age. This was reported by CBS online news in 2011.
You might be talking about "ocelli". It means "one single eye". Some arthropods (insects among them) have compound eyes and ocellis, which means that have eyes that have many smaller eye-like units= compound eyes, and also ocellis = individual eye units. For instance, flies have compound eyes and spiders have many ocellis.
Here is an article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelli
