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Roadcraft Chapter Notes Questions AndAnswers With Verified Solutions
(GRADED A+)
1. Becoming a better driver - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Becoming a better driver
1.1. A safe and competent driver - ANSWER✔✔ Have a critical and honest self-
awareness and understanding of your personal characteristics, attitudes and
behaviour, which are necessary for safe driving.
1.2. Take action - ANSWER✔✔ Take action to keep identified risks to a minimum.
1.3. Know your limitations - ANSWER✔✔ Have awareness of your own limitations
and those of the vehicle and the road.
1.4. Risk awareness - ANSWER✔✔ Be aware of the risks inherent in particular
road and traffic situations.
1.5. Paying attention - ANSWER✔✔ Make full use of your powers of observation
and concentration.
1.6. Direction, speed, conditions - ANSWER✔✔ Continuously match the vehicle's
direction and speed to the changing conditions.
1.7. Vehicle controls - ANSWER✔✔ Know the capabilities of your vehicle and its
controls.
,1.8. Competence - ANSWER✔✔ Have the knowledge, skills and understanding to
assess your driving ability.
1.9. Situational awareness - ANSWER✔✔ Gather, interpret and use information to
make sense of what is going on around you and what is likely to happen next.
1.10. Common collision causes - ANSWER✔✔ Know what makes you vulnerable.
2. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔ 2. The system of car control
2.1. The need for a system of car control - ANSWER✔✔ Use a system of car
control. This aims to prevent collisions by providing a systematic approach to
hazards. It uses a decision-making process that enables you to efficiently assess
and act on information that is continuously changing as you drive.
2.2. What is the system of car control? - ANSWER✔✔ Approach and negotiate
hazards in a way that is methodical, safe and leaves nothing to chance, using
careful observation, early anticipation and planning, and a systematic use of the
controls to maintain your vehicle's stability in all situations. It increases your
safety in a constantly changing driving environment by giving you time to react to
hazards.
2.3. How the system works - ANSWER✔✔ The system of car control consists of
processing information and four phases - position, speed, gear and acceleration.
Each phase develops out of the one before.
2.4. Importance of information - ANSWER✔✔ Take, use and give information to
plan your driving - remember TUG.
, 2.5. The system of car control - ANSWER✔✔ Use information to plan how to deal
with the hazards you identify and use the system to decide on your next action.
2.6. Use the system flexibly - ANSWER✔✔ Adapt the system to circumstances as
they arise.
2.7. Applying the system - ANSWER✔✔ Do you take, use and give information
throughout all phases? If not, what can you do to improve?
2.8. Car control when turning - ANSWER✔✔ Know how to apply the system of car
control when making right and left-hand turns.
2.9. Car control at roundabouts - ANSWER✔✔ Know how to apply the system of
car control when negotiating roundabouts.
2.10. Braking and gear changing - ANSWER✔✔ Remember that individual phases
of the system of car control are almost always applied separately. The principle is
that brakes are to slow, gears are to go.
3. Information, observation and anticipation - ANSWER✔✔ 3. Information,
observation and anticipation
3.1. Processing complex information - ANSWER✔✔ To develop your driving to
police operational standards, you will need to expand your ability to process
complex information.
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