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The California Driver Handbook is a booklet published by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. It is also available on the web. [15] Formerly titled the 'Vehicle Code Summary', it has information relating to licenses, examinations, laws/rules of the road, road signs, seat belts, and health and safety issues.
Driving phobia, [1] driving anxiety, [1] [2] vehophobia, [3] amaxophobia or driving-related fear (DRF) [4] is a pathological fear of driving. It is an intense, persistent fear of participating in car traffic (or in other vehicular transportation) that affects a person's lifestyle, including aspects such as an inability to participate in certain jobs due to the pathological avoidance of driving.
California's "catch-all" provision was previously found in California Vehicle Code Section 23152(a); however new statutes that were made effective on January 1, 2014, two new sections were created to make sections specifically addressing those charged with driving under the influence of drugs, (which includes prescription medications if it can be shown that those medications impaired the ...
Anything that prevents a driver from safely operating a car is considered a distraction, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. There are three types of distraction: Eyes off ...
California is a “no pay, no play” state, which prevents an uninsured not-at-fault driver from suing an insured at-fault driver for non-economic damage, such as pain and suffering or inconvenience.
The California Vehicle Code, informally referred to as the Veh. Code or the CVC , is a legal code which contains almost all statutes relating to the operation, ownership and registration of vehicles (including bicycles [ 1 ] and even animals when riding on a public roadway [ 2 ] ) in the state of California in the United States .
Impaired driving, referred to as Driving Under the Influence (DUI), or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), is the crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
The legal definition of road rage encompasses a group of behaviors expressed while driving, or stemming from traffic-related incidents. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines road rage as when "an intentional assault by a driver or passenger with a motor vehicle or a weapon that occurs on the roadway or is precipitated ...