Destination Drive Rural Roads #4
Passing Or Yielding To Other Vehicles
Goal:
Know when and how to safely pass in rural areas
Activity:
When there is not much room, if you see a vehicle approach, slow down and pull over to make room. Practice yielding and communicating to other vehicles at intersections or curves by using your horn, headlights or eye contact to show your intentions.
Common Errors:
Signs Learner Gets It:
Speed Management
Goal:
Know how to navigate a route
Activity:
Practice managing speed as the line of site and the road conditions change. Ease up on the gas and use the brake to control speed as you go down hills and around tight curves. Use your imagination to present some hypothetical situations as your teen drives.
Common Errors:
Goal:
Know when and how to safely pass in rural areas
Activity:
When there is not much room, if you see a vehicle approach, slow down and pull over to make room. Practice yielding and communicating to other vehicles at intersections or curves by using your horn, headlights or eye contact to show your intentions.
Common Errors:
- May pass at too fast of speed
- Forces other car off the road or worse!
Signs Learner Gets It:
- Pulls over early to allow safe passing
- Is not afraid to stop to allow other vehicles to go by
- Is courteous
- Communicates with other drivers
- Is aware of other vehicles behind his or her vehicle
Speed Management
Goal:
Know how to navigate a route
Activity:
Practice managing speed as the line of site and the road conditions change. Ease up on the gas and use the brake to control speed as you go down hills and around tight curves. Use your imagination to present some hypothetical situations as your teen drives.
Common Errors:
- May not be familiar with potential hazards in rural areas like animals, other vehicles or blind curves and hills
- Tends to drift toward the right
- May have trouble controlling speed
- Never exceeds the posted speed limits
- Adjusts speed to the road conditions
- Looks out for animals and other obstructions
- Manages speed effectively
Following Distance Rule – Space Cushion
Goal:
Help the new driver learn to leave six seconds between his or her car and the car ahead.
Activity:
Drivers should leave one-second of separation for every 10 mph travelling, so on the highway, they should leave about six seconds. Identify a marker that’s next to the car ahead and count six seconds. If you pass the marker before reaching 6,000, you are driving too closely.
Common Errors:
Goal:
Help the new driver learn to leave six seconds between his or her car and the car ahead.
Activity:
Drivers should leave one-second of separation for every 10 mph travelling, so on the highway, they should leave about six seconds. Identify a marker that’s next to the car ahead and count six seconds. If you pass the marker before reaching 6,000, you are driving too closely.
Common Errors:
- May follow too closely
- May not realize he or she is tailgating
- Reponds too much to the car behind
- Uses the six second rule to maintain space cushion
- Adjusts speed according to traffic density
- Does not tai
