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Chapter ELEVEN, Page
Traffic Safety
Chapter Eleven Lecture Guide
Driving on Expressways
Characteristics of Expressway Driving
1. An expressway is a access or access highway.
2. Expressways have fewer collisions because:
a. Cross is .
b. Opposing of traffic are .
c. Pedestrians, non-motorized vehicles, and slow-moving vehicles .
d. Wide shoulders, and extra wide underpasses provide good paths.
e. Expressway signs are to help conditions well
3. A driver conform to the posted and speed .
4. To become a safe expressway driver you should:
a. Prepare and your
b. Build gradually
c. on the driving
d. with other
Entering an Expressway
1. Before an expressway, make you are the ramp.
2. If you to enter the you do want, go ahead and on the expressway.
3. Most expressway entrances have three parts:
a.
b.
c.
4. Entrance cause many and on expressways.
5. Never up on an ramp or on a .
6. Some entrance have signal to help traffic entering the .
7. Make effort to an expressway stopping.
8. Take these precautions if you must stop on the expressway entrance:
a. Flash your lights to drivers behind you.
b. Pull onto the at the end of the lane or merge lane.
c. When you have room, and quickly as you join the traffic .
Strategies for Driving on Expressways
1. Expressway driving make using the process more .
2. making , unexpected decisions or changes in when driving on the expressway.
3. The far lane usually has the most from vehicles or leaving the expressway.
4. During hours, consider using the or lane to conflicts in the far lane.
5. You are better able to maintain a path of travel and making sudden last-second decisions if you:
a. your destination ahead of time
b. Read and roadway
c.
6. A speed limit is to keep traffic from too slowly.
7. An sign with a panel an lane.
8. You should avoid driving in which is called driving.
9. Applying the following rule on the expressway is a plan under conditions.
10. When being tailgated, the action to take is to your .
11. weaving from lane to can lead to a .
12. you will lanes so traffic the expressway can merge .
13. If you are being on the right when driving on the expressway, to the on your right.
Exiting Expressways
1. Try to slow you are the expressway and in the lane.
2. stop or up if you past your .
3. You be in the lane to the expressway at one-half mile plan to exit.
Special Expressway Problems
1. When traveling distances a driver can be lulled into a state known as highway .
2. Hours of can you into your vehicle is traveling than it is. This condition is called .
3. The following points should be considered when driving on city expressway, especially during rush hour:
a. Drive in the or lane to avoid vehicles.
b. Know well in where you want to .
c. Search for , and roadway .
d. Predict other are less and less than you are.
4. If your becomes , pull as far as onto the shoulder or .
5. Large and tractor-trailer can’t stop as as a car can. let these vehicles you.
6. Three key factors that contribute to safe expressway driving are:
a. among drivers
b. on the driving task
c. Using the process