1. Chapter One Driving and Mobility

2. Mobility and Driver Education
Mobility: ability to move or be moved
It is a fact of life
Must learn the basics of driving
Young drivers crash much more often
Learning, practice, awareness

3. What is gained from Driver Ed Course
Learn information and skills
Understand problems of driving
Freedom
Gain useful knowledge; manage visibility, time and space, become aware.

4. Useful Knowledge Personality, emotions, maturity Minimize risk
Alcohol and drug effects
Interpret traffic laws
Limiting factors
emergencies

5. Awareness of Limiting Factors
You need more than driving skill
False feeling of little risk
Illness, injury, meds
Emotional state
Drugs and alcohol

6. Why is Driver Ed Important?
Crash: when a motor vehicle hits another object
Young drivers are involved in significantly more
Age is only 7% of population, but are involved in 14% of crashes

7. Factors of Over-Representation
Young drivers lack experience
Young drivers drive at dangerous times
Young drivers drive differently

8. HTS Motor vehicles Streets and highways People
Enables people and goods to move from place to place

9. History of HTS About 100 years old only.
150 miles of paved highway in 1902
Now over 230 million vehicles and 4 million miles of paved road
60% of freight is moved on roads

10. Designing good Highways
Army of engineers design today’s highways
They must determine best route
Plan construction of bridges
Exit ramps, traffic signs, curves

11. Vehicles Range from small to large Flashy to old Handling of vehicles
Safety features
Care care by owner

12. Drivers 194 million licensed drivers
55 million pedestrians and bicyclists
Drivers must anticipate unsafe driving by others

13. HTS Regulation Federal, state, and local laws
State, county and local police enforce traffic laws

14. The Risks of Driving

15. Federal and State Requirements
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
National Highway Safety Act (pg 12)

16. Are Drivers at Risk Risk: possibility of personal injury or damage
1 in 9 chance of a crash
1 in 83 chance of disabling
38% of yr olds deaths are in crashes
85% of traffic deaths are in first crash
57% of crashes are 1 vehicle

17. Reducing Risks Keep vehicle in good condition
Anticipate action of others
Protect yourself: safety belts, low beam lights
Drive only when physically and mentally able
Develop good driving habits

18. VTS Visibility: what you can see from behind the wheel
Time: judge speed of you and others
Space: margin between you and others

19. The Costs of Driving

20. Crash Costs $230 Billion per year in auto crashes
More than 42,000 die per year in crashes

21. Lowering the Cost Seat belts could save 10,000
Not drinking alcohol could save 13,000 and another 360 injuries
Driving the speed limit could save 12,000 and another 690,000 injuries

22. Other Costs Operating Costs
Fixed costs: insurance, license fees, environmental
Driving 15,000 miles per year would average about 52 cents per mile in costs.
Cost-benefit ratio