What should you do to avoid potential hazards?
- Anticipate possible hazards
- Scan from one side of the road to the other
- Look well ahead and check your mirrors
- All of the above ✓
Answer: D. All of the above
To avoid potential hazards, do all of the above: anticipate possible hazards, scan from one side of the road to the other, and look well ahead while checking your mirrors.
Why this is the answer
The handbook describes an observation cycle for smart riding. Keep your eyes moving: look at least 12 seconds ahead, scan from one side of the road to the other for potential hazards, and glance in your mirrors to track what is happening behind you, then start the cycle again. It also says looking ahead gives you time to prepare for a potential hazard instead of being surprised, and side scanning helps you watch the road edges. The answer that includes anticipating hazards, side-to-side scanning, and looking ahead with mirror checks therefore covers the full habit.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Anticipate possible hazards — Anticipating possible hazards is part of the answer, but by itself it leaves out the handbook's specific actions of looking well ahead, scanning side to side, and checking your mirrors.
- B. Scan from one side of the road to the other — Scanning from one side of the road to the other is only one part of the observation cycle; it does not include looking well ahead or checking your mirrors.
- C. Look well ahead and check your mirrors — Looking well ahead and checking your mirrors covers two parts of the cycle but omits scanning from side to side for potential hazards.
Remember it
Keep your eyes moving: far ahead, side to side, mirrors, then start again.