Seeing Habits study guide for Mid-Term Test:   Study Activity # 401

• Most accidents involve average drivers.

• The reason for most accidents in most cases is poor seeing habits.

• Over 70% of all accidents occur during clear, dry weather on straight roads and in moderate traffic.

• When the possibility of a conflict you should signal a warning and make sure they stabilize to your signal.

• You should check your mirrors every 5-8 seconds.

• To "leave yourself an out", you should strive for a space cushion.

• You should dispose of eye holding problems quickly by changing lanes, adjusting speed, signaling or all three if necessary.

• The "acid test" of an expert driver is to drive for 5 to 10 years without needing a tire skid or violent swerve to avoid an accident.

• One of the most common errors in nighttime driving is swerving from the driving path into the other lane or off the road.

• A driver who sees a "small picture" is likely to follow too close and stop too hard.

• In order to "get the big picture"; it is necessary to sweep your eyes over the traffic scene, halting only briefly at any one object.

• A driver who swings to the left, for a right turn is looking down at the corner as he or she approaches it.

• LOW aim steering causes motorists to drive to the left-of-the-center of their lane!.

• One of the most common conflicts in daytime driving is crowding or blocking other vehicles when changing lanes.

• In most accidents, a mistake has been made by all of the drivers concerned.

• The seeing habit that can be attributed to the expert driver is that he or she resists distractions.

• When a driver concentrates on a situation longer than 2 seconds, his or her fringe vision sees very little, if anything.

• Fringe vision helps a driver by alternation the central vision.

• A blank stare is more dangerous than a fixed stare because your mind is not interpreting the images sent to it by the eye.

• Peripheral vision is the same as fringe vision.

• In degrees, the size of a driver's cone of central vision is 3 degrees.

• The tools that we use to drive are our hands and feet.

• Always move the steering wheel toward the center of your driving path.

• Using the correct seeing habits will allow you enough time to respond to and dispose of each driving problem.

• Drivers start preparing and practicing for an accident by the poor everyday habits that he or she builds.

• The average motorist has a subconscious fear of coming too close to objects on the right.

• The most important physical function in driving is the proper use of the eyes. Lane straddling and refusing to keep to the right are the results of low aim steering.

• It is a warning that you have built the wrong kind of driving habits if you have an occasional near-miss or need a tire-squeal stop to avoid an accident.

• Before slowing or changing lanes always check to the rear.

• If a driver has good seeing habits he will not ride any longer than necessary in a tight group of vehicles.

• Good driving skills are the most important factor in driving.

• We should allow extra space when boxed-in, when on slippery surfaces and being tailgated.

• "Get the big picture," means to keep watch over a wide, deep traffic scene and all around the car.

• The average motorist does not look well ahead of his car and uses the center of his or her driving path as a guide.

• Fringe and peripheral vision are the same thing and are 98% of your total vision, which is 177 degrees of your field of vision.

• Most drivers make the serious mistake of assuming that another driver will see them coming and will stay fixed.

• Fixed stare driving is usually present just before a driver has an accident.

• Not seeing hazards soon enough is a result of low aim steering.

• A driver cannot judge speed and distances by looking at an object only.