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?