Knowledge Base

Driving Safety: Preparing to Drive Safely

• The importance of preparing your vehicle and yourself to drive safely every time you head out on the road.
  
• The steps that you should take before you start a trip to ensure that your vehicle is safe to operate.
  
• Why you should not drive when you are fatigued, upset or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  

Driving Safety: General Safe Driving Principles

• The importance of obeying speed limits and traffic signs at all times.
  
• Why you should establish a "safety cushion" around your vehicle whenever you're driving.
  
• How to create and maintain a safe "following distance" between yourself and the vehicle in front of you.
  
• The procedures that you should follow to pass another vehicle safely.
  

Driving Safety: Driving Around Trucks and Buses

• How sharing the road with trucks and school buses can create additional driving hazards.
  
• The safe driving practices you should use when you are on the road with trucks.
  
• How to operate your vehicle safely and legally while driving in the vicinity of school buses.
  

Driving Safety: Night Driving and Adverse Weather Conditions

• How to use your headlights to improve your ability to see and be seen in low light conditions.
  
• How you can prepare to drive safely in adverse weather conditions.
  
• Some ways that you can maintain your wheels' traction on wet, snowy and icy roads.
  
• The difference between skidding and hydroplaning.
  
• What to do and not do in order to regain control of your vehicle if it starts to skid or hydroplane.
  

Driving Safety: Distracted Driving

• The different types of distractions that can affect you while you are driving.
  
• Some specific ways that you can become distracted on the road.
  
• The hazards that are associated with talking or texting on a cell phone while driving.
  
• How you can reduce or prevent distraction when you are driving.
  

Driving Safety: Road Rage

• The phenomenon known as "road rage".
  
• The safe driving practices that can help prevent you from becoming upset and aggressive behind the wheel.
  
• What to do and what not to do if you are being harassed by an aggressive driver.
  

Driving Safety: Driving Emergencies

• What causes a "blow-out".
  
• How you can maintain control of your vehicle if you experience a blow-out.
  
• What to do if you are involved in an accident.
  
• What documents you will need to provide to the other driver and to police if you are involved in an accident.
  
• What information you should obtain from another driver if you are involved in an accident.