According to the manual, alcohol affects your judgment of speed and distances in what way?
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A.
It changes your judgment of both speed and distance. Correct
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B.
It leaves distance judgment intact until intoxication.
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C.
It affects color vision but not distances.
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D.
It sharpens both after a warm-up period.
The answer is "It changes your judgment of both speed and distance."
The manual lists judgment of speed and distances among the abilities alcohol changes, alongside slowed reaction time and reduced clarity of vision. The trap is B, picked by drivers who remember alcohol affecting reflexes and vision separately and assume distance judgment holds up on its own; the manual groups all three together as effects that start with the first drink.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. It leaves distance judgment intact until intoxication.
The manual groups distance judgment with the effects that begin before intoxication. This answer splits the listed effects apart because distance perception feels more mechanical than the judgment items around it.
C. It affects color vision but not distances.
Color vision is not the effect named; distances are. This answer substitutes a night-driving color claim that does not appear anywhere in the alcohol section.
D. It sharpens both after a warm-up period.
The manual describes no warm-up; effects appear from the first drink. This answer imports the idea of alcohol tolerance from other settings and treats it as a driving skill the manual never grants.
This question tests your knowledge of Defensive Driving in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "What Alcohol Does," p.54..
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