Additional Information and Sites

Going Beyond the Text

External Websites

• Crossroads - The Crossroads website has stories of several young drivers. Each story takes several minutes to view. There is a small quiz at the end of each one.
• RoadReadyTeens - The RoadReadyTeens website is a neat website with some software that lets you run simulations of certain driving situations. Note: Unfortunately, the software only runs on Windows machines.

Videos

• Gas Fire - This video shows how static electricity can build up on a person causing a spark that can ignite gas fumes around a gas pump. Other common causes of fire at a gas station are cigarettes, cell phones, and electric current running thru your vechicle. Follow these rules before pumping gas into your vehicle.
  1. Turn off your engine, as well as, anything electrical in your car.
  2. After sliding out of your car, discharge the static electricity built up on you by touching something metal on your vehicle. Do this as far away from the gas pump as possible.
  3. Avoid getting in and out of your vehicle while at the gas pumps to prevent repeated build up of static electricity on you.
  4. Do not smoke.
  5. Turn off your cell phone.
• Parallel Parking - Watch Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld) demonstrate a bad way to parallel park a car. Video produced by the Insurance Education Foundation.

Videos with Test Questions

• Seatbelts - Why wear a seat belt? Here's why.
• Fatigue - What can happen when you drive tired.
• Russian Roulette - Russian Roulette is like driving drunk.
• Beach and Wine - Another video about drunk driving.
• Staggering Drunk - What you should do if you see a drunk driver.
• Cell Phone While Driving - Cell phones while driving, good or bad? Watch the video.