How often should you glance at your instruments while scanning?
Right! Glance periodically at speed and warning lights, but your priority is in front of you. 📖 Section 6
Searching, being seen, lane position and following.
How often should you glance at your instruments while scanning?
Right! Glance periodically at speed and warning lights, but your priority is in front of you. 📖 Section 6
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Hazards fall into three groups: other vehicles; pedestrians and animals, which move unpredictably; and fixed hazards such as roadside objects, surface hazards, signs, guardrails and bridges, which don't move but can limit your escape paths. Section 6
Target fixation is staring so hard at one object that you lose track of other hazards, and it can make you ride into the very thing you're trying to avoid; keep your eyes moving. Section 6
In the Decide step you have three options: adjust speed (speed up, slow down or stop), adjust position (move left or right) or communicate (horn, flashing the brake light or headlight, signals). Section 6
Stopping distance has three parts: mental (seeing and recognizing the need to stop), physical (reacting to apply the brakes) and mechanical (the brakes bringing the motorcycle to a stop). Section 6
Choose the path with the best line of sight and don't override your sight distance. Section 6
In multi-vehicle crashes the driver often doesn't see the rider in time. Section 6
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