Stress can affect your driving by:
- Lowing your ability to focus on driving. ✓
- Decreasing your chances of an accident.
- Causing you to fall asleep at the wheel.
- Making you more aware of others around you.
Answer: A. Lowing your ability to focus on driving.
Stress lowers your ability to focus on driving.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says safe driving requires you to be fully engaged, with your hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and mind on driving. It also states that anything affecting your physical or mental condition can impair your ability to drive. Stress is a mental condition, so it works against that full engagement and pulls your attention away from the road instead of keeping your mind on driving.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Decreasing your chances of an accident. — Stress is a mental condition that impairs driving, so it raises your risk rather than decreasing your chances of a crash.
- C. Causing you to fall asleep at the wheel. — The passages talk about mental and physical conditions that impair driving, but nothing in them says stress causes a driver to fall asleep at the wheel.
- D. Making you more aware of others around you. — Stress interferes with being fully engaged and keeping your mind on driving, so it does not make you more aware of the people around you.
Remember it
Before you drive, ask yourself whether something is keeping your mind on the road or pulling it away. Stress pulls it away.