The student will be able to:
- Demonstrate basic vehicle control (starting, stopping, turning, accelerating, and decelerating).
- Identify traffic signs, signals, and roadway markings.
- Know how to react in emergency driving situations.
- Demonstrate advanced vehicle control (two and three point turns, parallel parking, backing, backing while turning, and changing lanes).
- Maneuver the vehicle safely and confidently in rural, urban, and interstate traffic.
- Understand traffic laws.
- Understand the dangerous nature of motor vehicles.
- Demonstrate a good driving attitude.
- Understand what it means to be a defensive driver.
- Make safe driving decisions using the IPDE process (identify, predict, decide, and execute).
- Understand the economics of purchasing, owning, and maintaining a vehicle.