Course Outline

• Traffic laws and Regulations
  • Traffic Laws
  • Reasons for traffic Laws and Regulations
  • Compliance with traffic control devices
• Safe and proper use of vehicle components
  • Basic vehicle components
  • Pre-trip checks
• Safe and proper observation skills
  • How to observe
• Visual search and scanning
• Safe and responsible vehicle control
  • Controlling the vehicle safely and responsibly
• Safe and responsible handling of vehicle under various conditions
  • Traction
  • Friction
  • Benefits of proper tire inflation
• Safe and responsible driving to avoid collisions
  • Collision avoidance and basic evasive maneuvers
  • Principles of skid and slide control
• Accurate perception of personal limits, abilities, and risks
  • Different types of drivers
  • Dangerous driving
• Personal risk and tolerance
• Accurate risk perception
• Factors that affect driver risk perception
• Recognition and avoidance of collision situations
• Common collision factors for beginning drivers
• Common collision situations
• Identification of and effective response to potential hazards
• Potential hazards of driving and effective responses
• Effective decision making to ensure safe driving
• Hazard perception, decision making, and judgement
• Effects of impairment on decision making
• Post-incident decision making to ensure personal safety
• Minimize risk through appropriate driving actions
• Driving actions to minimize risk
• Positive driving attitudes and behaviours
  • Personal driving attiudes and behaviors
  • Social factors and influence
  • Resisting negative pressures
• Safe and responsible response to emergency situations
  • Responding to emergency situations
• Leadership in promoting safe driving
  • Being a safe respectful and responsible driver
• Respect for the environment as it relates to operating a vehicle
  • Environmentally conscious and efficient driving behaviour
  • Factors that contribute to changes in driving skill
• Cooperative driving
  • Cooperative driving
• Safe and responsible actions related to impaired driving
  • Types of impairment
• Managed driver distractions
  • Distracted driving
• Managed division of attention
  • Managing attention