ALBERTA NOVICE DRIVERS TRAINING EXAM ACTUAL

ALBERTA NOVICE DRIVERS TRAINING EXAM (ACTUAL

QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

Parking uphill with a curb - ---Answers-----Turn front wheels left and make sure that your wheel touches the curb

Parking downhill with a curb - ---Answers-----Turn front wheels right Parking uphill without a curb - ---Answers-----Turn wheels to the right

Parking downhill without a curb - ---Answers-----Turn front wheels right

Preventable collision - ---Answers-----one in which you failed to do everything that you reasonably could have done to prevent collision

defensive driving - ---Answers-----Driving to prevent collisions in spite of the incorrect actions of others and adverse conditions

SAFER system of defensive driving - ---Answers-----Space, attitude, foresight, eyesight, responsibility

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Space - ---Answers-----1 second for every 3m of length of your vehicle +2 seconds (drive with the intention of space)

basic speed law - ---Answers-----Never drive at a speed unsafe for existing conditions even if the law permits a higher speed

Attitude - ---Answers-----The most important aspect of driving

Zone you want to be in when driving - ---Answers-----Active proactive

Foresight - ---Answers-----The ability to anticipate

Situational awareness - ---Answers-----Knowledge and understanding of your surroundings and situation and the risk they potentially pose to your safety or the safety of the EMS team.

Horizon method - ---Answers-----Search back and forth within a specified sector at a constant elevation angle of no more than 5 degrees above the horizon

Seeing zone - ---Answers-----Where you recognize the hazard area (you going to enter this zone in 30-120 seconds)

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Planning zone - ---Answers-----Where you can analyze the hazard (in which obstacles or hazards can be found in 15-18 seconds)

Action zone - ---Answers-----Where you can avoid the hazard (4-6 seconds)

Inattention blindness - ---Answers-----failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is focused elsewhere

Triple look system - ---Answers------1/3 of the way check left centre right left -1/2 of the way check right centre left right -at the red zone check left centre right left

responsibility - ---Answers-----Ask: will this decision get me

home safe? And would my loved ones agree with this decision?

Headlights - ---Answers-----Required to be turned on one hour after sunset and ending one hour before the following sunrise

overdriving headlights - ---Answers-----driving at a speed that makes your stopping distance longer than the distance lighted by your headlights

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