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Kansas driver handbook guide

Kansas driver handbook guide.

Use this guide to navigate the 18 chapters in the handbook edition behind Roadwise’s Kansas course. Read the source, look up a rule in the study app, or work through 56 companion lessons.

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Handbook chapters
18
Source PDF pages
112
Companion lessons
56
Licensing agency
DMV

A way through the handbook

Start with the application and licensing material that applies to your age and license type. Then work through the driving rules, signs, and safe-driving chapters. A rule is easier to remember when you can explain what it asks you to do in a real road situation.

For a quick refresher, use the chapter list below. For a deeper study session, follow a companion lesson and its checkpoint questions. The page numbers refer to this course’s source edition and may differ from the newest agency edition.

Chapter list

  1. Introduction Source p. 1
  2. Required Documents List Source p. 6
  3. Age Requirements Source p. 9
  4. Contact Source p. 10
  5. Section 1: The Driver's License Source p. 11
  6. Section 2: State Laws and Rules of the Road Source p. 16
  7. Section 3: Be in Shape to Drive Source p. 20
  8. Section 4: Before You Drive Source p. 26
  9. Section 5: Basic Driving Source p. 30
  10. Section 6: Rules of the Road Source p. 33
  11. Section 7: Safe Driving Tips Source p. 56
  12. Section 8: Avoiding Collisions and Emergency Situations Source p. 73
  13. Section 9: Sharing the Road Source p. 79
  14. Section 10: Special Driving Situations Source p. 90
  15. Section 11: How to Prepare for Your Driver License Source p. 94
  16. Section 12: Optional Information Source p. 108
  17. Please Remember: Address Changes Source p. 111
  18. Become an Organ and Tissue Donor Source p. 112

What you will find in each chapter

Chapter 1 · source p. 1

Introduction

This chapter’s sections include:

  • All Rights Reserved
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Chapter 2 · source p. 6

Required Documents List

Read this chapter in the study app to see its complete text, source page references, and any accompanying illustrations.

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Chapter 3 · source p. 9

Age Requirements

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Driver Licenses
  • Instruction Permits
  • Driver’s Education
  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Online Knowledge Exam
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Chapter 4 · source p. 10

Contact

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Mailing Address (For other than express mail)
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Chapter 5 · source p. 11

Section 1: The Driver's License

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Loss of Driving Privileges
  • About This Manual
  • Farm Permit --- K.S.A. 8-296
  • Driving Restrictions 14-15 Year Old’s
  • Driving Restrictions 16-17 Year Old’s
  • Driving Restrictions
  • Restricted License --- K.S.A. 8-2,101
  • Driving Restrictions 15-Year-Old
  • Driving Restrictions 16-Year-Old
  • Unrestricted Driver’s License — K.S.A. 8-235d
  • Required Noncommercial License Tests
  • Unsuccessful Examinations
  • Driver License Renewal
  • Your Driving Privileges May Be Suspended Or Revoked
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 6 · source p. 16

Section 2: State Laws and Rules of the Road

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Basic Speed Law (K.S.A. 8-1557)
  • Speed Limits (K.S.A. 8-1558)
  • School Buses
  • Minimum Speed/Impeding The Flow Of Traffic (K.S.A. 8-1561)
  • Seatbelts (K.S.A. 8-2501)
  • Child Restraints (K.S.A. 8-1344)
  • Signaling For Stops And Turns (K.S.A. 8-1548)
  • Turns On Multi-Lane Roads (K.S.A. 8-1545)
  • “U” Turns (K.S.A. 8-1546)
  • Passing (K.S.A. 8-1516, 8-1518, 8-1520)
  • Passing On The Right
  • Following Other Vehicles (K.S.A. 8-1523)
  • Stopping
  • Right-Of-Way
  • Parking (K.S.A. 8-1571 8-1572)
  • Cell Phones (K.S.A 8-1598)
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 7 · source p. 20

Section 3: Be in Shape to Drive

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Emotions
  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Fatigue
  • Driver Distractions
  • Aggressive Driving
  • Alcohol, Other Drugs and Driving
  • If you are under 21
  • Effects of Alcohol and other Impairing Drugs
  • Alcohol and the Law
  • Over-the-Counter Drugs
  • Prescription Drugs
  • Illegal Drugs
  • Alcohol and Other Impairing Drugs
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 8 · source p. 26

Section 4: Before You Drive

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Adjusting Seat and Mirrors
  • Traditional Mirror Settings
  • Enhanced Mirror Settings
  • Using Safety Belts
  • Incorrect
  • Air Bags
  • Child Passenger Safety Laws
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 9 · source p. 30

Section 5: Basic Driving

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Backing
  • Starting
  • Accelerating
  • Stopping
  • Steering
  • Hand Position
  • Types of Steering Methods
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 10 · source p. 33

Section 6: Rules of the Road

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Parking
  • Right-Of-Way
  • Traffic Control Devices
  • Figure 6.1
  • Barrel Cone Tube Barrier Road Closed
  • No U-Turn
  • Fuel
  • State Route directions passing permitted
  • Other Lane Controls
  • Rules for School Buses
  • Perpendicular Parking
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 11 · source p. 56

Section 7: Safe Driving Tips

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Scanning
  • Seeing Well Ahead in the Travel Path
  • Traditional Mirror Settings
  • Stopping
  • Adjusting Speed
  • Adjusting to Roadway Conditions
  • Adjusting to Traffic Conditions
  • Obeying Appropriate Speed Limits
  • Space Management
  • Space Ahead
  • Space Behind Affects Your Following Interval
  • Space to the Side
  • Space to Merge
  • Space to Cross or Enter
  • Space to Pass
  • Space for Special Situations
  • Minimizing Hazards
  • Communicating
  • Signaling Your Movements
  • Driver Awareness
  • Risk Awareness
  • Risk Management
  • Decision Making
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 12 · source p. 73

Section 8: Avoiding Collisions and Emergency Situations

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Avoiding Collisions
  • Braking Quickly
  • Steering Quickly
  • Accelerating
  • Dealing with Skids
  • Protect Yourself in Collisions
  • Emergencies
  • Uneven Surface Drop-Offs
  • Rollovers
  • Vision Limitations
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 13 · source p. 79

Section 9: Sharing the Road

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Pedestrians
  • Bicyclists
  • Right Turn
  • Emergency Vehicles
  • Move-Over Laws
  • Interacting with Commercial Vehicles The No-Zone
  • Turning
  • Runaway Ramps
  • Transit Buses
  • Trains- See Section 6: Rules of the Road
  • Driving Slow Moving Vehicles
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 14 · source p. 90

Section 10: Special Driving Situations

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Rural Road Driving
  • Night Driving
  • Flooded Roadways
  • Fog - See Section 8 - Vision Limitations
  • Avoiding Collisions with Animals
  • Test Your Knowledge
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Chapter 15 · source p. 94

Section 11: How to Prepare for Your Driver License

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Knowledge Test
  • Passing the Knowledge Test
  • Failing the Knowledge Test
  • External Inspection
  • Internal Inspection
  • Basic Vehicle Control Skills Test
  • Instructions
  • Figure 11.1
  • Figure 11.2
  • Figure 11.3
  • Figure 11.4
  • Basic Control Skills Test Study Aid
  • Figure 11.3 – Three-point Turnabout
  • Road Test
  • How You Will Be Tested
  • Automatic Failures
  • Basic Control Skills on Road Test
  • Conclusion
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Chapter 16 · source p. 108

Section 12: Optional Information

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Trip Planning
  • Winter Driving
  • Driving in Very Hot Weather
  • Tornadoes
  • Lightning
  • Flood
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Chapter 17 · source p. 111

Please Remember: Address Changes

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Please Remember
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Chapter 18 · source p. 112

Become an Organ and Tissue Donor

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Become An Organ And Tissue Donor
  • Did You Know?
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Turn the reading into a study routine

The Kansas course groups the source material into 9 units. Each lesson includes handbook page references, examples, and a checkpoint in the study app.

Unit 1 · 8 lessons

Getting Your License

License types, permits, GDL limits, tests, renewal and suspension

  1. License types and who needs one
  2. Permits and the path to an unrestricted license
  3. Age-based driving restrictions
  4. Tests, retesting and renewal
  5. Losing your license and out-of-state drivers
  6. Pre-trip vehicle safety inspection
  7. Basic vehicle control skills test
  8. The road test

Unit 2 · 5 lessons

Kansas Rules of the Road: Speed & Basic Laws

Speed limits, seatbelts, signaling, passing, stops and phones

  1. Speed limits and the basic speed law
  2. Seatbelts and child restraints
  3. Signaling, turns and U-turns
  4. Passing rules
  5. Following distance, required stops and phones

Unit 3 · 6 lessons

Fit to Drive

Vision, fatigue, distraction, alcohol and drugs, and vehicle setup and control

  1. Vision, hearing and fatigue
  2. Distractions, aggressive driving and emotions
  3. How alcohol and drugs affect you
  4. Before you drive: seat, mirrors and air bags
  5. BAC law, penalties and other drugs
  6. Starting, steering and backing

Unit 4 · 8 lessons

Signs, Signals & Pavement Markings

Signal meanings, sign shapes and colors, railroad crossings and lane markings

  1. Traffic signals
  2. Warning signs
  3. Railroad crossings
  4. Regulatory signs: speed, stop and yield
  5. Guide, work zone and incident signs
  6. Pavement markings and crosswalks
  7. Regulatory signs: lanes, turns and direction
  8. Center-turn, reversible and reserved lanes

Unit 5 · 7 lessons

Right-of-Way, Turning & Parking

Who yields, lane use, turnabouts, roundabouts, school buses and parking

  1. Right-of-way rules
  2. Lane use and turning
  3. Roundabouts
  4. School bus stopping law
  5. Where you can't park
  6. Turnabouts and U-turns
  7. Parking on hills and in spaces

Unit 6 · 8 lessons

Visual Search, Speed & Space Management

Scanning, stopping distances, conditions, space cushions and communicating

  1. Scanning and visual lead
  2. Stopping distances
  3. Adjusting speed for road conditions
  4. Following distance and space around you
  5. Space to merge, cross and pass
  6. Communicating: lights, horn and signals
  7. Traffic flow, merging and speed limits
  8. Special situations, risk and decision making

Unit 7 · 4 lessons

Avoiding Collisions & Emergencies

Braking and steering to avoid crashes, skids, rollovers, breakdowns and visibility

  1. Avoiding a collision: brake, steer or accelerate
  2. Skids and rollovers
  3. Vehicle emergencies
  4. Vision limitations: night, weather and glare

Unit 8 · 6 lessons

Sharing the Road

Pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, trucks and slow vehicles

  1. Pedestrians
  2. Bicyclists
  3. Motorcycles, scooters and mopeds
  4. Emergency vehicles, move-over and police stops
  5. Commercial vehicles and the No-Zone
  6. Public transportation and slow-moving vehicles

Unit 9 · 4 lessons

Special Driving Situations

Rural roads, night, floods, work zones, animals, trips and severe weather

  1. Rural road driving
  2. Night driving and flooded roads
  3. Work zones and animals
  4. Trip planning and severe weather