New Jersey driving lesson · Drinking, Drugs, and Health
Impaired drivers, good hosts, and designated drivers
A 3-minute lesson from the New Jersey course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Police are trained to spot drinking drivers by how they drive. As a host or a friend you can stop an impaired person from driving at all. New Jersey was the first state to launch the Hero Campaign for designated drivers.
Know the rule
Drinking affects thinking and slows reaction time, and it can give a false feeling that you can do anything.
New Jersey was the first state to officially launch the Hero Campaign for Designated Drivers and encourages everyone to use designated driver programs.
At 1 a.m. you see a car ahead creeping well below the speed limit, weaving within its lane and stopping hard at every light. Those are the manual's signs of a drinking driver. Keep your distance, and have a passenger report it.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
Which of these is listed in the manual as a telltale sign that a driver may be intoxicated?
Signaling well before every turn
Keeping a very steady speed
Sudden stops at lights instead of easing up
Smooth, gradual stops at signs
Answer: Sudden stops at lights instead of easing up
Quick, sudden stops at a sign or light, rather than easing up, is listed as a telltale sign of an intoxicated driver.