Chapters
C2: Your License
- Virginia Driver Education
- The Knowledge
- The Code of Virginia
- The Highway Transportation System (HTS)
- What is the HTS?
- The Driving Point System
- The Driving Point System: Cont.
- Traffic Violations And Demerit Points
- Point System Simplified
- So...
- Suspension / Revocation
- Driver's Licenses & Organ Donations
- The List:
- You could do it too!
- Organ Donation Laws:
- Myths & Legends:
- For Science!
- Save More Lives!
- Becoming an organ donor?
- Reducing risks, again!
- The Stats
- The Factors
- Risk Awareness
- Managing Risk
- Risk Review
C3: Right of Ways
- Yielding the Right-Of-Way
- Types of Intersections
- Let's Watch: Controlled Intersections
- Uncontrolled Intersections
- Let's Watch: Right-of-way at uncontrolled intersections
- Intersecting Roads
- Intersections:
- Road Surfaces
- T-Intersections
- Let's Watch: Right-of-way at T Intersections
- Controlled-Access Highways
- Railroads
- Let's Watch: Train Crossings
- Let's Watch: Right-Of-Way (Left Turns)
- Let's Watch: Private Roads to Public Streets
- Let's Watch: Emergency Vehicles
- Move Over Act
- Funeral Processions
- Pedestrians
- Video: Right-Of-Ways
- Video: The Task Of Driving
- Right-Of-Way Wrap Up
- Potential / Immediate Emergency Situations:
- Situation 1: Head-On-Collisions:
- Situation 2: Collision With Stationary Objects or Obstacles
- Situation 3: Driving Off The Road:
- Situation 4: Rolling a Vehicle:
- Situation 5: Broadside Collisions / T-Bone Collisions:
- Situation 6: Rear-End Collisions:
- Situation 7: Sideswipe Collisions:
- Reducing Risks:
- Steering out of the way:
- Increasing Speed:
- Braking / Slowing Speed:
- Do the best you can…
- The Braking System:
- Debris & Road Obstacles:
- Eyes On The Road:
- Your Responsibilities:
- The Scene Of An Accident:
- HAVE TO STOP:
- Parked Car Collisions:
- Property Damages:
- The Good Samaritan Law:
- The Good Samaritan Law: Cont.
- Video: Before EMS
- Video: First On The Scene
- Quick Review C:3
C4: Traffic Control Devices
- Traffic Lights
- YELLOW
- GREEN
- GREEN cont...
- RED
- Traffic Signs
- Video: Signs, Signals, and Markings
- Traffic Sign Shapes
- Let's Watch: Signs and Their Meanings
- Warning Signs
- Warning Signs 1
- Warning Signs 2
- Warning Signs 3
- Warning Signs 4
- Warning Signs 5
- Warning Signs 6
- Warning Signs 7
- Warning Signs 5
- Regulatory Signs 1
- Regulatory Signs 2
- Regulatory Signs 3
- Regulatory Signs 4
- Guide Signs 1
- Guide Signs 2
- Lane Use Control & Railroad Signs
- Pavement Markings: Broken Yellow Lines
- Broken White Lines
- Center Lanes
- Double Yellow Lines - Solid vs. Broken Lines
- Let's Watch: Signs and Their Meanings #2
- Let's Watch: Signs and Their Meanings #3
- Let's Watch: Signs and Their Meanings #4
- Let's Watch: More Signs!
- Let's Watch: Signs In Space!
- Crosswalks
- Barrels
- Flags
- Construction
- Slow down for flag persons
- Be Prepared
- Not following a flaggers Instructions
- Wrapping Up
- Quick Review C:4
C5: Driving, Traffic, Weather
- Communicating
- Left Signal
- Right Signal
- Slow / Stopping Signal
- Turn your Turn Signal Off
- Passing
- Passing on a 2-Lane Road
- Passing on the right
- Right & Left Turns
- Turning:
- No Parking
- Parking on a Highway
- Handicap Parking
- Leaving your Vehicle Running
- Parallel Parking
- Parking on A Hill
- Leaving your parking spot
- Check and know your Blind Spots
- Following other vehicles safely
- Let's Watch: Following Interval
- Following Distance
- Approximate Stopping Distances
- Factors of Stopping Distance
- Perception Distance
- Reaction Distance
- Braking Distance
- Minimum Distance
- 2-3-4 Rule
- Choosing your SPEED
- Following Interval:
- Following Interval: Cont
- Headlights
- More on Headlights
- Tollways & Toll Facilities
- Highways
- Highways, Freeways, Interstates
- Interstate & Highway Numbering
- Highways and Fatigue
- Cars break down…
- Cars Break Down Cont.
- Skids, brake failure, or sliding
- Brake Failure
- Running Off Pavement
- Blowouts
- Driving On / Down Steep Hills
- Reacting To Poor Weather:
- ALWAYS Slow Down:
- Rain:
- Driving In Rain:
- Hydroplaning:
C6: Alcohol & Other Drugs
- It’s about to get real
- We HAVE to stop this!
- Drinking and Driving… It’s a thing :*(
- Legal Limit
- Enemy Of The Young:
- What is alcohol?
- Drugs
- Video: Drugged Driving
- Laws and Punishments
- Laws and Punishments (Adults)
- ZERO TOLERANCE (Laws and penalties for those under 21 - Minors)
- Now, let’s be crystal clear…
- Serious, Right?
- DUI Penalties
- Minor In Possession
- Public Intoxication (PI)
- Implied Consent
- Implied Consent: Cont
- NO REFUSAL
- These laws protect
- Be a safe driver
- Don't Drink & Drive:
- Administrative License Revocation
- Video: Truth About Drinking
- Video: DUI Death
- Quick Review C:6
C7: Sharing the Road
- It’s a big world out there!
- Good Samaritan Law
- How To Aid The Injured
- How To Aid The Injured (Cont.)
- Laws for Pedestrians
- Laws for Pedestrians (Cont.)
- Laws For Bicyclists
- If riding a bicycle…
- Ride Safe
- Bicycles (Cont.)
- Share the road with bicyclists
- Motorcycles - Trucks - Electric Scooters
- Sharing the Road with Motorcycles
- Where motorcycle collisions happen...
- How to be aware of motorcyclists
- Share the road with trucks & semis
- If you are following a truck
- Truck NO-ZONES
- Wide Right Turns
- Light / Metro Rails
- Horse & Carriage
- Pedestrians on the road
- Animals on the road
- Slow Moving Vehicles
- Sharing the Road with Construction or Maintenance Crews
- Video: Sharing The Roads
- Road Rage
- Aggressive Driving Is Dangerous:
- Characteristics Of An Aggressive Driver:
- Common Errors of Aggressive Drivers:
- How To Avoid Aggressive Drivers:
- No Aggressive Driving:
- Being a DEFENSIVE DRIVER
- Child Passengers
- Child Safety... Take it seriously!
- Safety Device Chart
- Safety Measures:
- Seatbelts:
- Seriously, wear your seatbelt!
- The Driver Seat:
- Wear Your Seatbelt!
- The LAW
- Video: What to do if pulled over
- Department of Motor Vehicles Keys to Safe Driving
- Gas, Petrol, Fuel
- Emissions:
- Emissions: Cont.
- Effects of the Environment:
- Conservation
- Quick Review C:7
C8: Managing Risk
- Defining Risk:
- Assessing Risk:
- Create a Plan:
- Strategy:
- Why plan a trip?
- Reducing Risks:
- Route Planning
- Planning Your Route:
- The cost of travel
- Checklist:
- Come Prepared:
- Cargo & Weight Distribution:
- Cold Weather:
- Play it safe!
- Plan for obstacles!
- Levels of Risk:
- Identify Risk:
- Low to Moderate Risk:
- Risk In The City:
- Traffic Risk:
- Planning For Traffic:
- Responding To Risk:
- Rural Area Risk:
- Highway Speeds:
- The Other Guys:
- Complex Risk:
- Think Ahead:
- Risks in the Highway Transportation System:
- Some stats...
- Be Aware, Be Alert:
- Predict and Analyze Risk:
- Controlled Risks:
- Low Risks:
- Moderate Risks:
- Complex Risks:
- Avoid High Risks:
- Consequences of Risk:
- Multitasking and Distractions:
- Multitask the Right Way:
- Top 5 Risk Factors:
- Employ A System:
- Interact with Others:
- 6 Zones:
- Let's Watch: 6 Zones:
- (SEE) Search, Evaluate, Execute:
- Search:
- Evaluate:
- Execute:
- Video: Managing Space & Time
- Distractions and the HTS: