Standards - Driver & Traffic Safety Education

Explain requirements for obtaining an Alabama Learner License and an Alabama Driver License, including any restrictions.

Identifying individuals who may not be licensed

Listing costs for obtaining and requirements for renewing various types of licenses

Explaining the Alabama Graduated Driver License law

Identifying the difference between suspension, revocation, and cancellation of driving privileges

Explaining the difference between driving as a privilege versus driving as a right

Describe Alabama's basic speed law.

Comparing statutory, posted, and advisory speed limits

List situations that require drivers to bring vehicles to a complete stop.

Describing legal requirements and safe driving practices concerning school and church buses

Name situations that require drivers to yield right-of-way.

Describe traffic signs and pavement markings that regulate various passing situations.

Identify traffic signs, traffic signals, and pavement markings as basic types of traffic controls.

Interpret Alabama's Safety Belt and Child Restraint laws.

Explain requirements mandated by the Alabama Department of Public Safety regarding motor vehicle registration and the Mandatory Liability Insurance Act.

Identify responsibilities of owning and operating a vehicle, including factors involved in purchasing a vehicle, purchasing insurance, and maintaining a vehicle.

Describe proper procedures for pre-starting, starting, and stopping a vehicle.

Explain basic maneuvers of driving, including steering, braking, passing, lane changing, merging, parking, signaling, and turning.

Explain defensive driving techniques, including the Smith System and the search, identify, predict, decide, and execute (SIPDE) process.

Analyze data regarding inexperienced drivers and traffic collisions.

Evaluating the negative impact of peer influence on youthful drivers

Explaining the relationship between speed and traffic fatalities

Identifying distractions that result in inattention while driving

Explain how alcohol and other drugs affect driving ability.

Identifying prescription and nonprescription drugs as two general types of drugs

Explaining the synergistic effect of alcohol and other drugs

Explaining Alabama's driving under the influence (DUI) law, including levels of influence, consequences, implied consent, actual physical control, and zero tolerance

Describing effects of emotional and physical short-term impairments on driving

Describe driver responsibilities toward other highway users, including pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and drivers of commercial vehicles and buses.

Identify dangerous driving situations that may occur on rural roads and urban streets.

Describing correct procedures for entering and exiting limited and controlled access highways

Describing correct procedures to follow when confronted with road emergencies and collisions

Explaining proper procedures for reporting traffic accidents

Explaining methods to minimize risks during ideal conditions, adverse road conditions, and periods of reduced visibility

Explaining safe procedures for approaching and driving through various railroad grade crossings