Canvas Chapter 8

All right, guys.

Good morning.

We are on to chapter eight.

This'll chapter is all about options and responses.

So we've talked about how to be in the vehicle

paying attention.

But now we're gonna move outside the vehicle and potentially

what is going on around us?

All right.

So, like giving meaning determining options is a mental length

that involves thinking through the meaning that results from searching.

I know there's a lot of words right there, but

essentially, we're looking.

We're searching for clues.

A sign, a signal, other vehicles.

And now we put meaning to that the meaning you

give to a situation determines your options.

And ultimately, the response you choose after you weigh your

options go beyond what is actually happening in a traffic

situation and making informed guesses what might happen next?

So we're kind of going to go over that in

this section right here.

You can see your objectives right there to find options

and explain their role in driving process.

Described the role of assumptions in the driving process, explained

the importance of choices in the driving process.

So driving is a process is not being just something

you're lackadaisically doing as you in this as you see,

the yellow word come up.

You know, those are important terms.

Eso option comparison assumptions and choices are some things that

we're going to cover in this.

Uh, so we're gonna start with the roll off options.

So in the driving process, you want to know all

of your options in order to make the best and

safest choice possible.

Remember that you only have a moment or two to

do so your options depend on your situation.

For the fullest possible understanding of your options you're searching

Process must be complete.

Enact. So you gotta take in everything.

You can't just take in one thing you gotta look

all the way around.

If you have been realistic and given meaning to the

situation, the best option for the situation will be easy

to identify and select.

If what you give meaning to in the traffic situation

is not accurate or realistic, the best selection or best

option will be difficulty and you might make a driving

missed a QE eso You know, you think about somebody

who is paying full attention to a scenario going down

the road.

Uh, they're free from distractions, and all of a sudden

the vehicle in front of them slams on their brakes.

Well, if they've been paying attention, then they might know

My left is clear or there's plenty of shoulder over

here on the right so I can veer to the

right really quick to not hit the vehicle in front

of me.

Let's use the cell phone.

That's an easy one to use if somebody has been

not paying attention.

And at 55 miles an hour, we've traveled a football

field and it takes about that time, um, to read

a text.

Three seconds.

Okay, the shortest text, you know, we have to look

down. So from looking down, reading, looking back up a

football field, If we have not been taking in everything,

then our options are very limited to us.

And we react in a negative place where my slam

on the brakes veer over left and all of a

sudden, now we're going into oncoming traffic and to lead

us with that is, we have consequences.

So you will know about, or we'll have experienced certain

situations while driving or watching other drivers.

There are also certain actions you can take as a

driver. So what I'm constantly doing is constantly assessing the

situation. I wanna always be like, What's going on?

What? What am I What am I looking at?

How am I taking that in next?

You want to interpret it?

So what is my interpretation?

And I like this cartoon here because you could see

the person on our left to saying, Well, that's four

lines. But then the person on the right, there's no

three. So two people, two different vehicles, they're assessing the

same exact thing.

But they're interpreting it two different ways.

That that's what makes driving hard is not everybody is

going to see this everything the same way.

And then after you have assessed after you have interpreted,

you need to make your best decision.

Okay, we wanna be predictable.

Are we being protect herbal while we drive down the

road? Okay, so we talked about options.

So some things that we might, um, determined is an

option. Might be because somebody is slowing down or stopping

in front of me.

What are my options?

Hopefully you've been paying attention.

You've been giving yourself enough space.

Your option is to stop behind them and not have

to make an emergency maneuver.

All right, something else.

A light changing.

Okay, if I've been paying attention if I'm assessing the

situation. So I'm driving from McDonald's in Madison to sheeps.

That's a popular destinations, and I get through the intersection

of Fairground Road where it cuts across, and all of

a sudden I can see the light in front of

the high school.

If I've seen it green from the time I first

saw it all the way up to it, there's a

good chance I think it's gonna turn yellow and red.

Therefore, my thought is I better be prepared to stop

if I get past the ramp where main Street comes

down and I saw it just go from red to

green. There's a great chance that it's going to stay

green because it was not a stale green light.

So that's where I'm using my options, and I'm paying

attention and assessing.

All right, um, it's somebody in your blind spot.

So if I've been scanning and searching my mirrors while

I'm driving down the road and I know there's a

car coming up pretty fast from behind me, it was

you know, way back five seconds ago and all of

a sudden is pretty close to me.

I want to understand it might be back in my

blind spot.

So if I need to maneuver somewhere, really give a

good check over my shoulder into my blind spot.

Same thing if I'm maneuvering to my right, I need

to make sure I've been paying attention to what was

in my blind spot.

Um, let's go over.

What if I move in somebody else's blinds?

So let's say if I'm going to target and call

Pepper and I'm driving up 29 there's three ramps, uh,

that come on to 29 as we're driving.

So let's say you're the white car.

This car is in front of you, so I'm moving

into their blind spot.

So I'm not going to assume that they know I'm

there because maybe they weren't trained by awesome teacher like

this guy here on Dhe.

There's a car coming off the ramp.

Well, if I'm here, I need to say I need

to figure out very quickly.

Am I going to accelerate to make sure that they

see me because I'm now in front of them also

creating space behind me in case they need to get

over. Or do I want to maybe play it safe

and not speed up thinking that they may get over

to allow the other car to get out?

What I don't want to do is stick here in

their blind spot and not give them their best option.

My best option is to create the safest space for

vehicles around me.

Okay? And you have to determine that with your experience.

And if you've been following that vehicle, you might have

an understanding if they've been slowing up constantly.

Maybe going by them is the best.

But creating that space and then are there pedestrians?

So, you know, we want to predict that if I

have a green light, that sign across the road says

they should not be walking, but it's pedestrian crosswalk.

Some pedestrians might go anyway on dhe.

I'm going to assume nothing s o.

We need to just come up with what are our

options and compare what we could do.

So three questions we can always ask yourself on Dhe.

There's a couple things, couple shows.

I've really enjoyed the office, probably during my all time

favorite. So Jim Halpert here.

What is happening here?

I'm always Yeah.

Ask yourself that.

What is going on out of my windshield?

Out of my rear view mirror in this situation.

I met after you.

Ask yourself what is happening here.

Um, not my favorite show.

But if it what do I believe will happen next

and then after I do that, is anything bad gonna

happen, you know, is if I've taken in a assessed,

um is everything that potentially can happen a good thing

if it is, I do it.

If it's not, I need to prepare.

Do I wanna get Do I slow down?

Do I speed up?

Do I steer?

There's a There's different things that we can do but

we gotta be prepared for them always.

I felt that means yesterday I liked it.

Alright, so we went through options.

We went through the role of options and now we're

going todo into informed assumptions.

So we're gonna get to this picture here in a

little while.

But as a driver who looks ahead, you often must

make assumptions as what other vehicles do.

Assumptions are used when determining available options and making your

final choice of which option has the greatest potential to

make something good happen.

If you did not make assumptions, it would take longer

to come to conclusions or decisions while driving.

For instance.

Yeah, this is an extreme case, but most people who

were driving down that road right there are going to

assume there's a really sharp curve ahead.

Okay, on that speed limit that's on there is for

our safety.

So that would be our assumption.

Now, if you get, let me go back if you

get the other one.

So this this other one here is Is this situation

like something I've been in before?

So I have I been to that intersection right there.

Three way stop.

Do I know what most vehicles dio?

Is it somewhere I've never been before?

Um, what happened in the other situations?

Eso I'm just I'm gathering all this from experience, and

could the same thing happen again?

So it's a neighborhood.

I know that people roll through the stop, so I'm

going to give an extra second or I've been around

this and everybody's pretty cautious.

Everybody takes their time, so I know I can safely

maneuver through here.

So that's that's just using assumptions.

And then we need to make a choice.

Okay, so we've done all of this way, you know,

taking all that information then and then we're ready to

make a choice so we can do things before we

ever leave.

For instance, we can have our GPS ready.

We know when we leave this is where we're going.

We've looked at the map, so it's not just talking

to us because many times a ZX we get going

down the road.

Even with the GPS.

If there's a lot of congestion of traffic, it cause

a lot of anxiety.

So if I know exactly where I should be going,

how far it should be, it will make you feel

better about the choices.

Alright, Some other things that happened while we're driving is

my choice is to but on the brakes.

My choice is to accelerate.

My choice is to steer move over for other vehicles,

so driving choices must be made quickly in real time

and usually without anyone's help.

Okay, Eso you're gonna be driving a lot by yourself.

You have to make those decisions.

If there's other people in the vehicle.

They're relying on you to make the best decision possible

in any driving situation.

You choose from five basic options.

Steering, braking, accelerating signaling and a combination of all of

them. Sometimes you might be doing you might steer and

accelerate the same time.

Sometimes you might have to break and steer it the

same time.

You should not be accelerating and braking it.

Same. That combination should not be happening, but making good

choices allow you to successfully manage space, time and visibility

to drive safely.

I mean, I keep talking about guys space time, visibility.

If you could do those things, you're going to be

safe. All right, so that is options.

That's lesson one.

You'll have some questions to go along with those again.

If you ever need me, reach out by email, reach

out by messaging canvas.

Um, and I will answer those quickly in the camp

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