driving skills
Behind-the-wheel ability
Driving skills are the abilities needed to operate a motor vehicle safely and effectively.
Basic skills include steering, braking, and parking.
Advanced skills involve hazard anticipation, defensive driving, and handling difficult conditions like ice or heavy traffic.
Her driving skills have improved since she started practicing on the highway.
- brakingReducing speed deliberately
- steeringControlling direction of movement
- acceleratingIncreasing in speed
- defensive drivingProactive safe vehicle operation
- driftingMoving without purpose
parking · reversing · spatial awareness · maneuvers · parallel parking · three point turn · emergency braking · trail braking · rush hour · cornering · night driving · reaction time · driving tests · merging · speed control · practical test · road test · blind spot
- motorsportsracing, race, race tracks, Daytona 500, racing teams
- Police Trainingpolice academy, academy, cadets, recruits, trainees
- operator psychologypilot fatigue, mental workload, cognitive load, human error, decision making
- skillsskills, ability, abilities, competencies, talent
- implicit memoryprocedural memory, priming, conditioning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning
driving skillsreckless driving
Unsafe vehicle operation
dangerous driving · careless driving · road hazard · negligent driving · impaired driving
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