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Understanding Driver Behaviour: Factors Affecting Safe Driving
Driviology Road Safety Education Team
What this actually means for you
Nobody sits down and decides to drive badly. It happens through habits and moods, which is exactly why this topic is in the course. The main objective of the Driver Behaviour module is to teach students to adjust their driving behaviour based on the driving environment. Instructors can teach you the manoeuvres in a few weeks. This part you have to decide to practise yourself, every trip.
Driver Behaviour: Enhance Your Driving Skills and Safety
Purpose:
The Driver Behaviour module aims to discuss how various personal factors and emotions can adversely affect driving capabilities.
Module Objectives:
The main objective of the Driver Behaviour module is to teach students to adjust their driving behaviour based on the driving environment. Road conditions contribute to safe and responsible driving.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, drivers will acquire the following skills and knowledge:
- Drivers will learn skills related to adjusting driving behaviour for different driving conditions.
- Drivers will learn various techniques on how to control their emotions.
- Drivers will learn how emotions relate to a driver's decision-making capabilities.
- Drivers will learn about the personal factors and their influence on driving behaviour.
- Drivers will learn about the social factors and their effects.
- Drivers will learn how to resist negative pressures and the impact of positive driving attitudes on all road-users.
- Drivers will learn about effective strategies to resist negative tension.
- Drivers will learn about the importance of decision-making, i.e. right decisions and the consequences of bad decision-making.
- Drivers will learn how to recognize internal cues.
- Drivers will learn how road rules, standard safe practices of road-users, and informed decision-making contribute to safe and responsible driving.
- Drivers will understand that driving is a privilege, not a right.
Driver Behavior:
While driving, the driver's attitude significantly plays a role in the safety of other road-users.
The driver's emotions significantly impact the driving style, and recognizing and dealing with feelings before driving is imperative. Being able to resist pressures from several external sources and learning how to be a courteous driver is also essential.
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Using this on Ontario roads — and on your road test
Think of it in terms of what is actually at stake: your licence, your insurance rates for years, and other people's safety — none of which a passenger egging you on will ever share with you. Instructors see the pattern every season: strong students with good car control whose results, and sometimes whose records, are decided by attitude instead. On the road test it shows up as judgement — the gaps you accept, the yellows you chase, the space you leave. Examiners are marking the driver they would trust alone in a car, and that is mostly this.
Questions drivers ask us
Can you explain driver behaviour in simple terms?
The Driver Behaviour module aims to discuss how various personal factors and emotions can adversely affect driving capabilities.
What should new drivers know about driver behavior?
While driving, the driver's attitude significantly plays a role in the safety of other road-users.
Can my attitude really affect my road test result?
Yes. Examiners mark judgement as much as technique: the gaps you accept, the speeds you choose, how you react to other drivers' mistakes. A technically smooth driver who makes impatient decisions does not look like a safe driver, and the score sheet reflects that.