Safe Driving Techniques

This depends on your speed and may depend on what country you live in. Where I live you should travel at a distance suitable for the speed you are traveling.

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No, just the opposite. A driver SHOULD strive to develop a positive attitude when driving. Bad attitudes can result in accidents and road rage.

The owners manual is the only accurate source of towing info. GAWR is only a rating for the vertical load on each axle. Which is not a consideration, unless your heavily loading the vehicle. GCWR is the total max combined of truck and trailer. With proper equipment, you can tow the GCWR - GVWR. (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) The proper tow capacity for your truck is between 2000 - 5800. Depending on your axle ratio, transmission and tow package. BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL ANSWER, WHICH IS DANGEROUSLY INACCURATE You should be able to find this out by reading the Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR) on the driver side door. Mine (1995, 4X4, 5.2-V8) says the rear axle can hold 3850lbs. For total towing capacity, however, use the GVWR number, which is the total recommended maximum weight of the truck plus the trailer. You can go to any grain elevator in any town and ask them to weigh your truck, then subtract this from the GVWR number and that will tell you the towing capacity for just the trailer. For a 95 Dakota with a V8, the tow capacity should figure to be about 7050 pounds.

The total gross weight for any vehicle is usually posted on the drivers side door jam. Also you can find it in your owners manual.

In what direction should you turn your wheels when parking uphill without a curb in Texas?

Within 500 feet of an oncoming car.

Within 350 feet of a car you are traveling behind.

80%.

During forward acceleration on any vehicle (front wheel drive or otherwise), more of the vehicles weight is transferred to the rear of the car, making the rear of the car heavier. This is undesirable in a front wheel drive car because there is less weight over the drive wheels to produce traction (causing the front wheels to spin)

500'

Yes you can. You cannot drive your friends but you can drive your siblings. The law changed in the year 2007 that you may drive your younger siblings.

Your main concern when an animal is on the road is to avoid having a traffic accident. If you swerve off the road to avoid hitting an animal, and as a result you hit a tree, that is worse than hitting the animal, since you are much more likely to be injured or killed, to say nothing of the car repair bills. If the animal is small, such as a rabbit, it is much less dangerous to your car than a larger animal such as a deer or a moose. Hitting a moose is quite dangerous, so try not to do that. Remember that there may be other cars behind you, and if you brake too rapidly, the cars behind you may hit your car. You do not want to involve other cars in a traffic accident. So avoid animals if possible, but run them over if necessary to avoid a more serious accident. In heavy traffic, don't even try to avoid a small animal; the risk is too great.

by the li9ghts of the car

Our 1994 was listed as 24/26 , but my father swears it was 34 on the highway going 70mph>

It is illegal in the state of North Carolina. It is also very dangerous. I'm on a Volunteer Fire Department and have been to wrecks involving pickups with people in the bed. It's not pretty.

Most states recommend that you keep your wheels about 6 inches away from the curb, but do not penalize you if your vehicle is within 18 inches from the curb. Anything further than that, and you fail the maneuver.

The statute governing this distance is different from state to state, and maybe even city-to-city.

Be considerate in using your high beams. Your headlights must be on low beam when you are within 500 feet (150 m) of an approaching vehicle, or within 200 feet (60 m) of a vehicle ahead of you, even if the vehicle ahead is in a different lane. You should also dim your lights for pedestrians approaching you. http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/dmanual/chapter10-manual.htm (Alaska and Oregon are the same as New York - 500 feet.)

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy driving is a factor in more than 100,000 crashes, resulting in 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries annually

In other words, 1,550 people die from falling asleep at the wheel in one year.

Turn your wheels to the left.

Driving etiquette in a crowded area is very simple, but largely ignored. Be patient, avoid using your horn out of frusteration, use your parking lights not headlights if its dark, and wait your turn. If there are two lines of cars both heading for the same area, etiquette is to alternate lines, one car from the left line, one car from the right line and so on. The biggest thing is to just stay patient, everyone wants to get out quickly, and everyone is stuck. Just turn on your radio, roll down the windows if you like, or turn on the heat or ac so you're comfortable, and wait your turn along with everyone else.

No, unless you want to be arrested.

It is possible, as there may be some play allowed between the time the vehicle is put into drive and the time the transmission actually engaged. For the most part, a vehicle in drive should not roll unless being propelled forward by the motor and drivetrain. What you describe is not impossible, but highly unlikely.

Since Hawaii is a number of islands, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, you cannot drive a car to Hawaii.

In my country, Singapore, our government built Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries on the highways. These gantries automatically deduct payment from the In-vehicle Unit (IU) found in each motor vehicle, in which you insert your cashcard. This way, motorists will want to avoid the gantries on the highways and this will divert some of the traffic into the smaller, less-travelled roads.

At minimum 3 seconds. If the road conditions are adverse, it should be 5 seconds or more.