CHAPTER 8 Managing Distractions For Your Quiz You
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CHAPTER 8 Managing Distractions
For Your Quiz You should be able to: Explain the difference between driver inattention and distracted driving. List the four categories of driver distractions. Explain why dialing a cell phone or texting is distracting (hint: relates to all four categories of driver distractions). Explain how you can minimize distractions inside your vehicle. Explain why outside the vehicle distractions can be more difficult to deal with than in the car distractions.
Driver Inattention & Distracted Driving • Driver Inattention Look but don’t see • Unintentional • • Distracted Driving Choice • Intentional •
Distraction Classifications National Highway Traffic & Safety Administration (NHTSA) groups distracted drivers into four categories: Cognitive Distractions • Visual Distractions • Auditory Distractions • Biomechanical Distractions •
Cell Phones • • • Auditory Distraction Cognitive Distraction Visual Distraction Biomechanical Distraction Class Activity
Vehicle Equipment and Controls • GPS devices • Video Entertainment Systems • Sound Systems
Other Distractions • Animals/Insects • Food and Drink • Passengers • Loose Objects
Distractions Outside the Vehicle • Traffic Signs • Debris • Crashes
For Your Quiz You should be able to: Explain the difference between driver inattention and distracted driving. List the four categories of driver distractions. Explain why dialing a cell phone or texting is distracting (hint: relates to all four categories of driver distractions). Explain how you can minimize distractions inside your vehicle. Explain why outside the vehicle distractions can be more difficult to deal with than in the car distractions.
- What is a biomechanical distraction
- Chapter 8 managing distractions answers
- Making quick glances to the roadway
- Managing your own business
- To hear with attention
- Factual distractions
- You put your left foot in you put your left foot out
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