What does alcohol do to your driving skills and judgement?
- It helps driving skills but harms your judgement.
- It harms both driving skills and judgement. ✓
- It has no effect on either driving skills or judgement.
- It has no effect on judgement but it harms driving skills.
Answer: B. It harms both driving skills and judgement.
Alcohol harms both your driving skills and your judgement.
Why this is the answer
The Florida handbook says alcohol reduces the skills needed for safe driving, including judgement, reaction, vision, and concentration. It notes that judgement is affected first, and that even one drink can change your driving. It also says alcohol slows reflexes, makes seeing clearly harder, and leaves you less alert, so judging distance, speed, and other vehicles' movement becomes difficult, along with controlling the car. Because the handbook describes effects on both mental judgement and physical driving skills, it supports the answer that alcohol harms both.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. It helps driving skills but harms your judgement. — This is wrong because the handbook says alcohol reduces judgement and driving skills; it does not say alcohol improves any driving skill.
- C. It has no effect on either driving skills or judgement. — This is wrong because the handbook states even one drink can affect driving and that alcohol reduces skills needed to drive safely.
- D. It has no effect on judgement but it harms driving skills. — This is wrong because the handbook says judgement is affected first and alcohol also slows reflexes and reduces vision, alertness, and control.
Remember it
Picture alcohol as two strikes: it clouds your choices and slows your hands.