Motorist Education is a 3-hour classroom session, this course can be easily added to a driver's education curriculum, such as diversion training for reckless drivers or a course designed local bus drivers. Directed towards motorists in general, topics covered include roadway positioning of cyclists, traffic and hand signals, principles of right-of-way and left and right turn problems. Materials include Share the Road literature for bicyclists and motorists as well as other fact sheets.
Length: 3 hours
Topics:
- Crash Types
- Basic Concepts of BikeEd
- Driving on the Right; Right-of-Way
- Superior and Inferior Roads
- Traffic Signals
- Hand Signals
- Channelization
- Courtesy
- Road Position of Bicycles
- Two or More Abreast
- Left Turns
- Car-Bike Collisions
- Conflict Between Motorists and Cyclists
- Bike Lanes and Bike Paths
- Sharing the Road