Assignment 7/6

Part One:
Five ways to communicate with other drivers are using your headlights, brake lights, horn, lane position and using signals. You can communicate with your headlights because putting them on helps you and others see where the car is going. Using brake lights helps others know what your doing whether your stopping, slowing down or pulling over. The horn helps you communicate because you can use a light tap for warning others of a loud blast in emergencies. Lane positioning can be used to help because it indicates your intended path of travel to other drivers. Finally, using your signals lets the other drivers know which way you intend to go so the can plan there actions accordingly.

Part Two: Type Three
FCA's
1) Explain what the Vermont Graduated License Law is all about
2) Express in your own words how you feel about the law and would you suggest any changes to the law
3) Correct spelling and grammar

The Vermont Graduated License Law is a way to help people ages fifteen to eighteen understand how to be better drivers and be safe. Restrictions of the law were made by earlier teens experiences and lack of knowledge. Also, this law helps teens keep others safe and prevents injuries or even deaths. My opinion on this law is that its a good law because it helps young driver stay safe because there a sets of guidelines and rules so that its hard for the driver not to be safe. This gives a good chance for teen drivers to feel more responsible and at the same time keep them safe. If I could suggest anything to add to this law I would say to give more information and fact describing the law and the advantages to having this law more then what they said already.

Part Three:
First Article-
Drivers: Stop Waving E-Z Passes
Signs Posted at Toll Booths
POSTED: 7:55 am EDT July 22, 2007
UPDATED: 8:02 am EDT July 22, 2007

DERRY, N.H. -- The state Department of Transportation has a message to turnpike drivers: Stop waving those E-ZPass transponders!
After observing a third of E-ZPass users holding and waving their transponders back and forth, toll plaza attendants posted new signs: "Transponder Waving Causes Violations."
Properly used, E-ZPass transponders are attached to car windshields so they can be electronically read. Drivers who treat transponders like hand-held devices, waving them to and fro as they drive through the tolls, because a couple of problems, said Transportation Department spokesman Bill Boynton. First, transponder readers often can't recognize transponders that aren't fixed to a stationary point on a windshield, Boynton said. That means transponder wavers sometimes aren't getting charged as they drive through. Although toll evaders in the cash lane face up to a $144 fine, E-ZPass users who get through without paying only are subject to a $25 administrative fee.
But Boynton said there's a more serious reason not to wave those transponders. That's the second problem: If a driver is holding a transponder in one hand, which means there's only one had on the steering wheel, and that's dangerous.
Linda Cate, a supervisor at the Bedford tolls, says she has even seen drivers stop in the E-ZPass lane, get out of their cars and wave their transponders in the air to try to get a reading.
That's not safe, Cate said.
"They could be hit by a car," she said.
Boynton said he doubts most transponder wavers do it to intentionally avoid paying the toll. Some still haven't got the hang of the program that has only been around for two years; some people don't like the look of transponders attached to their windshields and others just forget to attach them when they buy a new car, he said.
"To guarantee the accuracy of transponder activity, we have to be sure that it is done correctly," Boynton said.
New Hampshire's E-ZPass program has grown to 180,000 accounts since the program began; today more than 50 percent of cars passing through the state's tolls use E-ZPass. New Hampshire collected $80 million in cash and electronic toll payments in 2006.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

My response to this article is that people need to be more efficient with this system because if it's not working then they need to improve it so the economy is not breaking down. If this system was better watched or made more efficient then less people would have to go through the hassle of having to deal with the consequences even though they paid the toll already

Second Article-
Jeff Larson And Cindy Campbell's Driving School
Getting Good Drivers To Be Better Drivers
POSTED: 1:52 pm EDT May 21, 2007
UPDATED: 4:17 pm EDT July 13, 2007

BOSTON -- Jeff and Cindy's idea is to discuss subjects that might be unclear or not considered by most drivers.
It is an effort to improve the driving knowledge, behavior and decision making of the average driver. They hope to get good drivers to be better drivers.
Where to put your hands on the wheel
Do You Look?
Driving With Trucks
How To Save Gas
How To Drive Safely On the Highway
How To Drive Defensively
How To Deal With Bright Headlights
Dangers Of Following Too Closely
Tips To Make Sure The Other Driver Sees You
Who Has Right Of Way?
Why Predictability Is Important
Copyright 2007 by TheBostonChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

My feelings on this article is that I think it's good that more people are talking about how to be better and safer drivers. This will make more people be aware of the good and bad things in driving. Also, it's good so it will be on more peoples minds.

Third Article-
Driver in Deadly Motel Crash Is Charged
By Associated Press
11:45 AM EDT, July 20, 2007

ANTIGO, Wis. - A man who plowed his sports utility vehicle through a motel, killing a sleeping man, had a blood-alcohol level more than five times the legal limit to drive, authorities said. Stephen VanVleit, 58, of Antigo was charged with felony homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle, felony homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, and drunken driving, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. His blood-alcohol level at the time of the crash was 0.46 percent, the complaint said. The legal limit to drive in Wisconsin is 0.08 percent.
He was convicted of drunken driving in Arizona in 1998 and 2003, the complaint said. The most serious charge filed against him Thursday carries a sentence of up to 25 years in prison if he's convicted. Jesus Manuel Quirios-Castillo, 26, died in the crash reported around dawn Wednesday at the Good Nite Inn. VanVleit's GMC Yukon hit a truck in the motel parking lot, accelerated, crashed through a brick wall and the window of Room 28, ran over Quirios-Castillo and then went through another wall in the back of the room, investigators said. The SUV then struck a garage and an auto on a neighbor's property, they said. VanVleit lived at the motel. Shortly after the crash, his mother told another resident that her son had been at her home at 4 a.m., was very intoxicated and refused to get a ride home from his uncle, the complaint said. Castillo and his 24-year-old brother, Octavio, were staying in the room because they were scheduled to help dismantle a garden center, sheriff's investigators said. Octavio Castillo suffered some injuries in the crash, the complaint said. Motel manager Robert Lindemann said the surviving brother told a motel resident that he and his brother were to leave Saturday for Mexico to see their mother, whom they hadn't seen in six years. VanVleit was in stable condition at Langlade Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.

My thoughts on this article are that it proves that when people intoxicated they don't have the capability to think in a responsible manner. These kinds of behaviors need to stop especially when someone intoxicated gets behind the wheel. Even though you're not in the right mind while intoxicated, its no excuse to get being the wheel of a enormous vehicle.

Part Four: This video shows multiple collisions and who and what are affected by it. There were many different collisions so they may have been getting the point that there are a lot of collisions by doing one little thing wrong. Also, by limiting those small mistakes, you would have less of a chance of getting into a collision.

Part Five:
1) Describe the three parts of the zone control system are
2) Choose 5 of the 12 zone control management principles and explain how you might use each one in a particular situation to solve a problem.
3) Correct spelling and grammar

The zone control system is an organized method for managing space or the six zones around your car. Three parts of the zone control system are the front zone, rear zone and the left front zone. The front zone is the area in which your path of travel is. The rear zone is the car-length behind the car. The left front zone is the area in front of you to the left (ex. oncoming cars would be in your front left zone)

Part Six:
Link 1.) http://social-advertising.info/seat-belts-can-save-lives/
Link 2.) http://www.seatbeltpros.com/
Link 3.) http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.htm