Avoiding collisions — Tennessee Permit Test

To avoid a collision, a driver has 3 options: stop, turn, or speed up.

Many drivers freeze when a crash looks likely. Knowing the 3 moves ahead of time helps you pick one fast instead of doing nothing.

In avoiding a collision, drivers have three options: 1. Stop 2. Turn 3. Speed Up

In most cases you can turn a vehicle quicker than you can stop it, so if you cannot stop in time, try to steer around the object.

At speed your car needs a long distance to stop. A quick turn of the wheel can clear an obstacle that braking alone would still hit.

In most cases, you can turn the vehicle quicker than you can stop it.

Without ABS, if your brakes lock and the car starts to skid, quickly let up on the brake pedal, then press it again once the skid stops.

Locked wheels slide and will not steer. Letting up lets the tires grip the road again so you can control the car.

If the brakes lock-up, you will feel the vehicle start to skid. Quickly let up on the brake pedal.

Without ABS, to turn quickly while braking, let up on the brake pedal and then turn the steering wheel.

Without ABS, a wheel locked by hard braking cannot steer. The car plows straight ahead into the very thing you tried to miss.

As you are braking you will need to let up on the brake pedal and then turn the steering wheel.

Generally, it is better to turn off the road than to crash head-on into another vehicle.

A head-on crash adds both cars' speeds together. A ditch or a field is almost always the softer thing to hit.

Another consideration is that generally it is better to turn off the road than to crash head-on into another vehicle.

Speeding up can be the best way to avoid a collision when another vehicle is about to hit you from the side or from behind and there is room ahead of you.

Braking when a car is about to hit you from behind only makes the hit harder. Moving forward into open road can take you out of its path.

This may happen when another vehicle is about to hit you from the side or from behind and there is room to the front of your vehicle to get out of danger.

After you steer away from a hazard, keep control and always steer in the direction you want the vehicle to go.

Some drivers miss one crash and steer straight into another. Looking and steering where you want to end up keeps the car on a safe path.

Always steer in the direction you want the vehicle to go.

Never drive a car with ABS more aggressively than a car without it; ABS does not make faster curves or abrupt lane changes safe.

ABS helps you steer while braking, but it cannot add grip. A curve taken too fast still sends the car off the road.

Never drive an ABS-equipped vehicle more aggressively than vehicle without ABS.

What are the three options drivers have for avoiding a collision?

Stop, turn, or speed up. Many drivers freeze when a crash looks likely. Knowing the 3 moves ahead of time helps you pick one fast instead of doing nothing. Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.96: “In avoiding a collision, drivers have three options: 1. Stop 2. Turn 3. Speed Up”