General

• Make a routine pre-driving check of tires, windshield, lights, and debris.
• Adjust your lane change mirrors to the enhanced setting to reduce head and shoulder movement.
• A driver's view is easily blocked when changing lanes and passing vehicles.
• Scan continuously and glance at your mirrors often.
• The purpose of traffic signs is to regulate, to warn, and to guide.  Regulatory signs state the law.  Warning signs alert you to dangers or changes ahead.  Guide signs provide information.
• Regulatory signs are red and white or black and white.
• Aim high in steering, looking far ahead toward the center of your intended path. 
• You must identify hazards farther ahead when driving at faster speeds because you reach the hazards more quickly.
• While driving on open highways, you should search areas farther ahead than in the city.
• A traffic-control officer's hand signals take priority over traffic signals.
• A child under 5 years may only travel in the front seat if in the proper restraint system, the air bag is turned off, and the back seat is fully occupied by children under 5.
• Children under the age of 8 and less than 4 feet 9 inches must be properly secured in a child restrain system.
• The size of the gaps (in cross traffic) needed to safely cross an intersection from a stop depends on the size of the intersection.
• Reducing risks from a hazard by putting more distance between you and the hazard is called minimizing.
• If you MUST attend to a distraction while driving, increase your following distance. 
• When turning (not lane-changing), your last check should be in the direction of your intended path of travel.
• Your field of vision is the area you can see around you, up to 180 degrees.
• During a right turn, if your front tire comes close to the curb, your rear tire may likely go up and over the curb.
• When passing parked vehicles, stay at least a door's width away.
• Before performing a maneuver, activate your turn signal at least 100 feet in advance.
• Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions.  White lines separate traffic moving in the same direction. 
• Activate your turn signal about 5 seconds before performing a maneuver.
• Ideally, it is best to have a space of a least 8 feet on both sides of your vehicle.
• Children under the age of 8 and less than 4 feet 9 inches must be secured in a child restraint system.
• Driving always involves risk. While risk cannot be totally eliminated, it must be minimized by managing time and space.
• When a blind pedestrian is waiting to cross, stop at the crosswalk and wait for the pedestrian to cross the street.
• You must dim your headlights when within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle.
• If their is an air bag in your vehicle's steering wheel, it is best to keep your hands at the 9 and 3 or 8 and 4 o'clock positions.
• If the air bags are not in proper operating condition, the warning light will stay on.
• The vehicle safety technology called ESP stands for Electronic Stability Program.
• The two colors that are used for motorist information and recreation signs are blue and brown.
• As you are about to enter the vehicle from the street side, you should stand at the front of the vehicle to see approaching traffic.