effects of driver conditions emotions & driving how can emotions affect your driving? what is...
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Effects of Driver Conditions
Emotions & Driving
How can Emotions affect your Driving?
• What is the emotion that affects drivers the most?
Road Rage
• What can you do if someone has Road Rage?
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Other Emotions can affect Driving
• Sorrow
• Depression
• Anxiety
Peer Pressure
• Passengers can have a strong affect on the way you drive.
• Discourage the driver from taking reckless actions
Be a Leader
• While driving a car, the driver must show leadership because he or she is responsible for the safety of passengers!
Physical Senses & Driving• Where do we get most of our information
while driving?
• 90 to 95% of our information comes from our eyes
Visual Acuity
• The ability to see things clearly
• Normal vision is called ?
• 20/20
• 20/40 must be twice as
close as a person with 20/20
What do you see?
Color blind test
Dice Saxophone
Do you see the Arrow?
Night Blindness
• Unable to see well at night• Usually the 3rd thing to go in elderly
people.
• Memory is the 2nd
• I can’t remember the 1st
Glare• Bright Sunlight
• Bright lights at night
• What should you do if bright lights are coming toward you?
• What is Glare Recovery Time?
Distractions
• A driver needs to focus on driving at all times.
Cell Phone, CD, Texting
Field of Vision - Page 299
• What is your Field of Vision?
• What is Tunnel Vision?
• What is your Central Vision?
• What is your Fridge Vision?
Physical Disabilities
• Fatigue• Fatigue slows down mental and physical abilities
• Temporary Illness or injury
• Effects of Medicine • Read the Label
Effects of Carbon Monoxide
• What does Carbon Monoxide look like, smell like and taste like?
• Where is it found?