1. What steps would you follow to start and move a car with automatic transmission?
Put gear in park, select automatic choke, and turn the engine on. Step on the brake and put the car into drive or reverse.
2. How would you use your brakes to slow and stop a car with automatic transmission? How would you stop in an emergency?
Check your mirrors, tap your brake pedal, and apply steady pressure to the brake pedal.
3. How is manual transmission different from an automatic transmission?
Change forward gears by manually shifting up or down. Automatic shifts for you.
4. What steps would you follow to start and move a car with manual transmission?
Set parking brake, push clutch to the floor, step on the brake and shift into neutral, and turn the engine on. Release parking brake and shift into first. To stop the car, press the clutch to the floor and move your right foot to the brake.
5. How would you use the forward gears of a vehicle that has a manual transmission?
First gear sets the car in motion, second is used for speeds 15 to 25, third gear is used for speeds over 25 or speeds up to 30 or 40, fourth or fifth gear is used for driving at higher speeds.
6. What is acceleration? How are acceleration and speed related?
Acceleration is an increase of speed, the more acceleration you have, the more speed you get.
7. What procedures would you follow to steer a car straight ahead? To turn?
Steer towards a point in the center of path of travel. Look beyond the turn to the point you want to reach.
8. How do you back a car?
Look over your right shoulder, place left hand at top of the steering wheel, and steer in the direction you want the car to move.
