The SIPDE Process and Risk Contributors: Vision, Maintenance, Environment, and Roadway
Understand the SIPDE process in managing risk while driving. Learn how vision, vehicle maintenance, and the environment contribute to potential hazards on the road.
The SIPDE Process and Risk Contributors: Vision, Maintenance, Environment, and Roadway
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Chapter 4 4.1 The SIPDE Process
Risk Contributors (user) • ____________ • Being angry • Having blurred vision • ____________ • ____________ while driving • Using a ____________
Owner responsibility (maintenance) • Bald ____________ • Poorly adjusted ____________ • Dirty ____________ • Broken ____________ • Worn wiper blades
Risk: Environment & Roadway • Bright ____________ • ____________ • Dark Shadows • Snow & Ice • ____________ Curve
SIPDE • Scan • Identify • Predict • Decide • Execute
SCAN • Looking to the left, straight, right, and behind the area surrounding your vehicle.
Identify Use of visual search pattern to identify… • Open and closed zones • ____________ clues • Other ____________ • Roadway features and conditions • ____________ controls
Predict Use knowledge, judgment, and experience to predict • ____________ of other users • Speed • ____________ • Control
Decide Decide to use one or more action to: • Change or maintain speed • Change ____________ • ____________
Execute Execute your decision to: • Control speed • ____________ • Communicate • ____________ actions
________ Visual ________ Pattern • Is a process of searching __________ areas in a ____________ sequence. • When should we practice this?
Smith System Is an organized method to help drivers develop good seeing habits • Aim high in ____________ • Keep your ____________ moving • Get the big ____________ • Make sure other see you “____________” • Leave an “____________”
Aim high in steering • Look ahead ____________ seconds • Look far ahead to identify clues and analyze situations before the zone becomes ____________. • Some restrictions include: hills, large vehicles, weather, curves, etc…
Keep your eyes moving • Looking near and far, side to side, and in the mirrors will help you! • You must ____________ on an object for an instant so you can analyze it! • Don’t ____________ too long!
Get the big picture • Is a mental process of putting together the critical clues you have selected. • It is the result of ____________ and keeping your ____________!
“BE SEEN” • Let others ____________. • Don’t hangout in the ____________ of other vehicles. • “If you cant see my mirrors then I cant see you!”
Leave an “OUT” • Always be looking for ____________ zones. • ____________ will have less open zones then country areas! • What can we look for?
_____________________ The area you can see around you, while looking straight ahead
____________ Vision • The area that you can see clearly and sharply • This is only about _____ degrees in front of you!
____________ Vision • The area you can see to the left and right of central vision is your side vision • The farther you get away from your central vision the ____________ clearly you can see • ____________ degrees
How to communicate with other drivers. • Headlights, taillights, and brake lights • ____________ signals • Parking lights and hazard flashers • Back-up lights • ____________ • Eye contact
____________ a hazard • Reduce the possibility of a conflict by deciding to put ________________ between yourself and the hazard Ex. A car driving down a street moves closer to the middle of the lane because they predict a car door will open.
____________ Hazards • There will be times that you will face more than one hazard at a time • ____________ try to handle both or all at once! • Decide to adjust your speed to deal with only ____________ hazard at a time.
____________ the space • Sometimes they cant be ____________ or ____________. • When this happens you need to compromise by _____________________ ____________ as possible to the greater hazard. • Sometimes you might have to _____ a hazard to prevent a bigger one!
____________ Cushion The area of space all around your vehicle
Closed Zone A space ____________ to you because of a ____________ in your line of sight or intended path of travel
Open Zone A space where you can drive ____________ restriction