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The Driving Task

2. The Driving Task
Includes all social, physical, and mental skills required to drive
To perform these skills in a low risk manner you need to develop habits for:
Using knowledge and visual skills
Obeying traffic laws
Judging time and space
Anticipating how your car will respond during normal and emergency conditions

3. Social Skills of Driving
While driving you must interact successfully with other people
Being a courteous driver means you obey traffic laws and make an extra effort to work with other drivers
Without courtesy and cooperation, low risk driving is impossible
What is the opposite of being a courteous driver?
Aggressive driving and ROAD RAGE

4. Physical Skills of Driving
You must learn the physical skills of driving so they become natural habits
Once they become habit you can focus your attention on the social and mental tasks of driving
What are the physical skills of driving?

5. Mental Skills of driving
DECISION MAKING

6. IPDE Process
The process of seeing, thinking, and responding I- Identify-important information in the ongoing driving scene P-Predict-when and where possible points of conflict will develop D-Decide-when, where and how to communicate, adjust speed, and/or change positions to avoid a conflict E-Execute- the right actions to prevent conflict

7. Defensive Driving
Once you master the IPDE you will be able to drive in a way that reduces conflict, which is called defensive driving Defensive Driving lowers the risk of conflict by protecting you and others from dangerous driving situations