This document provides an overview of a driver education course module on risk reduction and space management. It outlines topics that will be covered, including recognizing risk factors, predicting and analyzing risk, employing safe driving practices, the impact of distractions, and crash statistics. Sample questions are provided from the Texas Driver's Handbook on traffic signs, signals, and scenarios to assess understanding of risk management concepts.

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Module Five Risk Reduction California DMV http://ed.ted.com/on/TeVVduDC
(Management) Risk Management
Classroom Instructional Phase Texas Drivers p 5-6
Handbook 1. On a one-way street, what color is the broken lane marker?
5.1.1 Risk Factors Yellow
(A) Recognize that participation in 2. Describe the “Yield” sign.
HTS involves constant risk that must
be predicted, analyzed, and
minimized including the effect a
driver’s actions have on vulnerable
roadway users 3. What does a “Narrow Bridge” sign look like, and how should the
(B) Describe the benefits of driver react when he sees one?
predicting, analyzing, and minimizing
both potential and immediate risk
factors
(C) Summarize how to predict and
analyze potential and immediate risk 4. What is the shape of a “Keep Right” sign, and how should the
by categorizing risk factors into driver react when he sees one?
controlled, low, moderate, and
complex risk
(D) Examine and compare how risk is
processed differently by novice and
experienced drivers
(E) Relate how risk factors are 5. Which sign tells you to slow down because you are approaching
predicted, analyzed, and minimized a double curve?
by employing Traffic laws, Driver
Preparation, Vehicle Movements,
Driver Readiness, and Risk
Reduction reduced-risk driving
practices
(F) Describe how risk-taking
diminishes reduced-risk driving
practices
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(G) Provide examples of how
Texas Drivers 6. What does a “Do Not Pass” sign mean?
reduced-risk driving practices Handbook p 5-6 The distance you can see ahead is so limited that passing another vehicle
respond to potential and immediate is so hazardous that you may not pass.
risk in controlled, low, moderate, and
complex risk environments 7. Which sign tells you to keep in the right-hand lane when driving
slow?
(H)Examine the consequences when
the driver’s perceived risk is different
from actual risk and formulate plans
to accurately recognize risk
8. How should you react when a traffic officer tells you to do
something which is ordinarily considered to be against the law?
p 5-1 You must obey a traffic officer at all times even if he is telling you which is
ordinarily considered against the law.
9. What type of sign warns you to watch right and left for cross
traffic?
(I)Explain how multi-task
performances and distractions CNN http://ed.ted.com/on/hwQsnMP6
complicate predicting, analyzing and Distracted Driving
minimizing risk factors
(J) Describe ways to reduce the risk
factors related to multi-task
performances
(K) Identify risk factors and the top Texas Motor Vehicle Crash Statistics - 2010
Texas DOT
five contributing factors to crashes
and fatalities in Texas by examining <http://www.txdot.gov/txdot_library/drivers_vehicles/publications/crash_stat
the motor vehicle crash and fatality istics/default.htm>
statistics as reported by the
appropriate state agency
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(L) Compare the traffic crash and
fatality rates of drivers in various age
groups to the rates of novice drivers
ages 15-17 Texas DOT Texas Motor Vehicle Crash Statistics - 2010
(M) Explain why novice drivers are
over-represented in crashes, injuries, <http://www.txdot.gov/txdot_library/drivers_vehicles/publications/crash_stat
and fatalities including those istics/default.htm>
involving speed, alcohol and other
drugs, single vehicles, and off-road
control loss crashes
p 5-2 10. What does a green arrow showing with a red light mean?
Texas Drivers Proceed carefully in the direction of the arrow after yielding the right-of-way
Handbook to other vehicles and pedestrians.
11. How should you react to a flashing red light?
Stop completely before entering the crosswalk or intersection, then
proceed when you can do so safely. Vehicles on the intersecting roadway
may not have to stop.
12. Which sign tells you to watch out for a train?
13. Describe the sign which warns you to slow down for a winding
road.
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p 5-2
Texas Drivers
Handbook
14. What sign indicates that the road that you are on merges with
another?
15. What kind of sign warns you that the highest safe speed for the
turn ahead is 25 mph?
16. Describe the sign that tells you to watch for cross traffic ahead.
17. What type of sign warns you that you should slow down for a
sharp rise in the roadway?
18. Describe the type of sign which would let you know that you were
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on a short state highway in a city or urban area.
5.1.2 Space Management
(A) The student is expected to define Texas Drivers
Handbook 19. What does a posted speed limit of 55 mph mean?
space management process Indicates the maximum speed for driving on the highway for nighttime or
(B) Summarize how to predict, analyze, p 5-2 daytime.
20. When a driver is waiting to make a left turn, what is the
and minimize risk factors by utilizing a procedure he should take when the light turns green?
space management system, such as “SEE p 5-6 You may turn left on a light that is green. However, you must yield the right
of way if other traffic is approaching from the opposite direction.
IT – Search, Evaluate, and Execute in 21. What sign warns you that you must slow down?
Texas” Warning signs alert drivers to conditions which lie immediately ahead and
(C) Explain how to employ a space tell them what to look for.
management system such as “SEE IT –
Search, Evaluate, and Execute in Texas”
while establishing vehicle operating NTSA http://ed.ted.com/on/rvu2CpvB
Space Management
space, line of sight, path of travel, lane
placement, right-of-way, following
interval, vehicle speed, and
communication
(D) Employ a space management system
such as SEE IT – Search, Evaluate, and
Execute in Texas” to predict, analyze,
and minimize risk
(E) Employ a space management system
to safely interact with other roadway
users including vulnerable roadway
users
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