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Defensive Driving Fundamentals
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C

Conscious
Having mental faculties that are undulled by sleep, faintness, or injury (awake).

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D

Depth Perception
The ability to judge the distance of objects and the spatial relationship of objects at different distances.

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F

Fatigue
The weariness or exhaustion that results from exertion or stress.

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O

Oversteer skid
Skid that occurs when your car is turning too much and the rear of the vehicle is sliding.

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P

Peripheral vision
The outer part of the field of vision.

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R

Road rage
A motorist's uncontrolled anger that is usually incited by an irritating act of another motorist and is expressed in aggressive or violent behavior.

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T

Twilight
The light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust.

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U

Understeer skid
Skid that occurs when your car refuses to turn and the front wheels of the vehicle are sliding.

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