The best way to encourage your friends to drive safely is to
- compliment them for making safe choices ✓
- point out whenever they make a driving error
- tell them what you would do if you were driving
- insist that they stay below the speed limit
Answer: A. compliment them for making safe choices
The best way to encourage your friends to drive safely is to compliment them for making safe choices.
Why this is the answer
The handbook describes positive peer pressure as friends encouraging you to do the safe thing because they care about you. Complimenting a friend for a safe choice is a form of that encouragement: it reinforces the safe behavior instead of creating tension. The passages do not give a step-by-step script for this, but they do draw a clear line between positive pressure toward safety and negative pressure toward danger. That makes praise for safe choices the best fit among the listed answers.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. point out whenever they make a driving error — Pointing out every driving error is criticism, and the handbook’s description of positive peer pressure is about encouraging safe actions rather than correcting mistakes.
- C. tell them what you would do if you were driving — Telling friends what you would do if you were driving does not encourage their safe choices and is not described in the passages as positive peer pressure.
- D. insist that they stay below the speed limit — Insisting that friends stay below the speed limit is a single instruction, and the passages describe positive peer pressure as encouragement toward safe actions, not pushing a rule.
Remember it
Catch your friends doing something safe and say so — positive pressure works better than criticism.