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Delores colorado scenery11/28/2023 ![]() The Burro Bridge Forest Service Campground is located along Forest Road 535 near Dunton. Topo Maps: Dolores Peak Groundhog Mountain.ĬampingCamping is allowed in the area in accordance with Forest Service regulations. Mountain ConditionsContact the Dolores Ranger District at 97 for the latest information.įorest Service Map: San Juan National Forest. What summer Colorado activities are a priority for you and your group Start by identifying the primary activity and. Forest Roads 535 and 611 are in generally good condition. Drive up this side road a short distance and park. CDOT ROUTES - CDOT route section is repaired October 2022. You will then see a rough side road on the left bank of Fish Creek. COLORADOTV with Thunder 93.5 Radio Free Aspen now on ROKU search 'ColoradoWebCam' Camera 1 is the Colorado TV Auto Switcher Channel. The road then makes a sharp left turn as it crosses Fish Creek. Drive northwest about five miles on this road. This road heads for the Groundhog Reservoir. Turn right at the junction onto Forest Road 611, also known as the Black Mesa Road. Dunton is located just south of the junction. Continue west on the road for another two miles. After about eight miles, the road reaches the Burro Bridge Campground. You’ll get your first glimpse of Dolores Peak from here. After about two miles, the road reaches a scenic plateau. ![]() ![]() The road starts heading uphill immediately on a narrow switchback. Getting ThereFrom the famous Lizard Head Pass on Colorado 145, drive about five miles south, then turn right onto the scenic Forest Road 535. Scene near Delores, Colorado 00-552 Photographs taken as studies for wildlife exhibits. However, these mountains make worthy climbing objectives for anyone willing to venture off the beaten path. Located far from the major population centers along the Front Range, and containing no Centennial Peaks, this relatively unknown mountain group receives little attention and few climbers. The other two members of the group include the 13,261’ Middle Peak, and the 12,595’ Dunn Peak.ĭolores Peak and its two neighbors live a quiet existence in the shadow of the famous Wilson Group 14ers. Wonderful scenery from every side trails to hi. To help with bookings, call our support phone number:1-87. Vacation rentals available for short and long term stay on Vrbo. scenery on the San Juan Skyway, boating, waterskiing, camping, hiking and. 78 houses to book online from 67 per night direct from owner for Dolores, CO. Dolores Peak is located in the San Miguel Mountains, and is also part of the Lizard Head Wilderness and the San Juan National Forest. Mountains (United States of America) > Colorado > Southwestern Colorado > Dolores. It rises majestically from an isolated group of three mountains at the very western edge of the San Juan Mountains. OverviewDolores Peak is located in southwest Colorado.
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A day in space station11/28/2023 ![]() Together with the Canadian Space Agency, ESA and Japan’s JAXA, collaboration between 15 nations saw a truly International Space Station emerge. The Mir Space Station as seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-89. Space Station Freedom, as it was then called, had undergone several redesigns as NASA engineers struggled with the challenges of building a large, stable structure in space.īut the fall of the Soviet Union made way for former adversaries to forge new partnerships, and Roscosmos brought invaluable experience from its own space stations, Salyut and Mir. Williams explains: “It was not an easy road even to get to that point: not only the political support but the technical integration of all of these components that needed to go together.”īy 1993, 9 years had passed since US President Reagan’s missive to build a space station within the decade. International Space Station Expedition 1 crew, 1 month into their mission. Zarya was the first module launched into orbit in 1998 (funded by the US, and built and launched by the Russian space agency Roscosmos), shortly followed by the US-built and launched Unity module.Īfter an 18-month delay, the Russian-built Zvezda, which would provide life support systems for the ISS, was connected to Zarya in September 2000, in readiness for the first crew. Credit: NASA How was the International Space Station built?īack in 2000 the ISS was a fraction of its current size with just three modules providing the basics for permanent habitation. The International Space Station imaged by an STS-131 astronaut on Space Shuttle Discovery, 17 April 2010. 231 Spacewalks since launch, including during construction.73 Wingspan in metres of the solar arrays.1,500,000 Lines of flight computer code.350,000 Number of sensors monitoring crew health and safety.2,700 Individual science investigations.4 Minimum time in hours for a spacecraft to arrive after launch.16 Frequency of Earth orbits in 24 hours.240 Number of individuals who have visited.4 billion Maintenance cost in US dollars per year.27,600 Orbital speed in kilometres per hour. ![]() Credit: NASA In numbers: facts about the ISS Most of those flights took up a major component some were logistics missions that supplied the ISS.” NASA astronaut Jeff Williams conducts a spacewalk on the ISS during mission STS-101, one of many missions dedicated to the supply and construction of the uncrewed Space Station. “And there were also about roughly 40 Russian rocket launches that supported the assembly of the ISS. “When you look at the whole assembly, there were around 37 Space Shuttle flights,” says NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, who saw 4 trips to the ISS including STS-101, the 3rd mission devoted to its construction. The living quarters are altogether larger than a 6-bedroom house and include 6 sleeping quarters, 2 bathrooms, a gym and a 360° view bay window called the Cupola. Modular in design and constructed over 13 years, it has 8 solar arrays, a main truss ‘backbone’ and pressurised habitation modules. It weighs around 420,000kg (more than 320 cars) and at 109m is longer than a football pitch. The ISS is an engineering marvel: the largest structure ever built in space. The rising Sun shines through the solar arrays of the International Space Station. The International Space Station travels at 27,600km per hour, meaning astronauts on the ISS see 16 sunrises a day and make one orbit around Earth in 90 minutes. With each sunrise we awake and go about our daily lives with little thought that a group of humans are living on the International Space Station, 400km above Earth. Listen to our latest podcast on 20 years of the ISS: There are generations growing up today who have only known a time when the human race lived both on and off planet Earth. Since their arrival, a steady crew rotation means the ISS has never once gone unoccupied. It began on 2 November 2000 when the crew of Expedition-1 – US astronaut William ‘Bill’ Shepherd, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko – docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the ISS, climbed through the hatch and switched on the lights. International Space Station: history and factsįor the past 20 years there has been a continuous human presence in space on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Blotter acid time11/28/2023 ![]() It changes your mind,” says McCloud in the Wired video at the top of the post. “What fascinates me about blotter is what fascinates me about all art. (The museum’s website explains the origins of “blotter” paper as a means of preparing LSD doses after the drug was criminalized in California in 1966.) Despite the fact that he has a larger collection of blotter acid sheets than the DEA, he and his museum have withstood prosecution and attempts to shut them down, since all the sheets in his possession have either never been dipped in LSD or have become chemically inactive over time. McCloud has faced intense scrutiny from the FBI, and on a couple of occasions - in 1992 and again in 2001 - arrest and trial by “not very sympathetic” juries, who nonetheless acquitted him both times. The house also features a perforation board, allowing McCloud to turn any work of art sized 7.5 by 7.5 inches into 900 pieces, as is typical for LSD blotter sheets. Most of the sheets are framed and hanging on McCloud’s walls, decorating the home with vibrant colors and patterns, and the rest are kept safe in binders. ![]() The house preserves over 33,000 sheets of LSD blotter, treating them like tiny little works of art. Specifically, as Culture Trip explains, McCloud preserves the art on sheets of blotter acid. As is clear from the many pop cultural references on blotter art - like Beavis and Butthead and techno artist Plastikman (who named his debut album Sheet One) - the 60s blotter acid legacy extended far beyond its founders’ vision in underground scenes throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s, and oughts.Īlso known as the Blotter Barn or the Institute of Illegal Images, McCloud’s house is located on 20th Street between Mission and Capp. His mission in creating and maintaining the museum formally called the Institute of Illegal Images, he says, is to “preserve a ‘skeletal’ remnant of San Francisco’s drug-induced 1960s legacy, ‘so maybe our children can better understand us.’” “In the same moralistic manner many San Franciscans pontificate on the health benefits of marijuana,” writes Gregory Thomas at Mission Local, “McCloud and his friends tout the merits of acid.” Next to curing “anxiety, depression and ‘marital problems,’” it is also an important source of folk art, says McCloud, the owner and sole proprietor of the informally-named “LSD Museum” housed in his three-story Victorian home in San Francisco. None of this comes as news to San Francisco fixture Mark McCloud. “Scientists are rediscovering what many see as the substances’ astonishing therapeutic potential.” ![]() Psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD “have been steadily making their way back into the lab,” notes Scientific American. ![]() “Once dismissed as the dangerous dalliances of the counterculture,” writes Nature, psychedelic drugs are “gaining mainstream acceptance” in clinical treatment. But it has since returned with newfound respectability. government, repressing what the government had itself helped bring into being. Whatever uses it might have had in psychiatric settings - and there were many known at the time - LSD was made illegal in 1968 by the U.S. Not long afterward, Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street,” writes Rolling Stone, and became the country’s biggest supplier, the “king of acid.” Kesey administered the drug in “Acid Tests” to find out who could handle it (and who couldn’t) after he stole the substance from Army doctors, who themselves administered it as part of the CIA’s MKUltra experiments. When Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters kicked off Haight-Ashbury’s counterculture in the 1960s, LSD was the key ingredient in their potent mix of drugs, the Hell’s Angels, the Beat poets, and their local band The Warlocks (soon to become The Grateful Dead).
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Cherry blossom festival tidal basin dc11/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The estate features four distinct gardens for you to enjoy today. Today you can explore the gardens Washington developed and enjoy his unspoiled view across the Potomac River. Washington's mind was rarely far from the lush gardens and majestic views at Mount Vernon. I nsider Tip: Meadowlark is also home to the only public Korean Bell Garden in the entire Western Hemisphere complete with two-ton bell! Please plan a trip to the garden to see the expert craftmanship of the bell pavilion, the simplicity of the landscape and the breathtaking view of the rest of the gardens.ħSmall Entrance Fee George Washington's Mount Vernon Meadowlark Botanical Gardens features walking trails, lakes, more than twenty varieties of cherry trees (over 100 trees), irises, peonies, an extensive shade garden, native wildflowers, gazebos, birds, butterflies, seasonal blooms and foliage create a sanctuary of beauty and nature. Insider Tip: Visit the Garden Gate Plant Shop and our two gift shops where you'll find gift ideas ranging from books and gardening gloves to china and wind chimes.ħFree Admission Meadowlark Botanical Gardensīeauty, conservation, education and discovery flourish throughout the year at this 95-acre complex of large ornamental display gardens and unique native plant collections. There's something here for everyone: a wooded stream valley with ponds, a naturalistic native plant garden, over 20 thematic demonstration gardens, a greenhouse filled with tropicals, and a well-stocked horticultural reference library. It's a year-round gold mine of information and inspiration for the home gardener. It's also a museum, a national historic site that offers glimpses into a long, rich history with colonial origins. Green Spring Gardens is a "must visit" for everyone in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. Here’s a sampling of what you can find when you stay at Hilton.Fairfax County's Cherry Blossom Festival Activitiesĭuring the National Cherry Blossom Festival® you are invited to plan a self-guided tour to some of Fairfax County's splendid gardens. As the only Premier Hotel Provider of the 2023 event, as well as supporting sponsor of the parade and presenting sponsor of the kite festival, Hilton’s D.C.-area hotels are joining in the fun with special Cherry Blossom-themed packages and offerings. to enjoy the National Cherry Blossom Festival, it matters where you stay. ![]() The month-long festival features a plethora of petal-celebrating events, including the Blossom Kite Festival, the Pink Tie Party, fireworks, and the perennial National Cherry Blossom Parade, which runs along Constitution Avenue with colorful helium balloons, elaborate floats, celebrity entertainers and marching bands from around the country. Since receiving 3,000 cherry trees from the Mayor of Tokyo in 1912, the District of Colombia’s beautiful spring has become a draw to travelers eager to say goodbye to winter and stand beneath the shade of thousands of pink and white petals. One of the world’s greatest celebrations of spring blooms again March 20 through April 16 as the National Cherry Blossom Festival returns to Washington, D.C., coinciding with the white and pink floral blossoms bursting to life on more than 3,700 cherry trees found around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, Hains Point of East Potomac Park and the Washington Monument grounds.
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Best opus one wine11/27/2023 California’s Opus One is jointly owned by the Rothschild family and Constellation Brands. In the US, it was on sale for between 250 and 280 per bottle in bond in California and New York. This translated to a UK release price of £1,100. Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Malbec. Bordeaux negociants released Opus One 2013 at 185 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up from 168 for the 2012. Finishes with a long, layered aftertaste. The dense core of fruit pushes through a front of rustic graphite and loamy earth. "A Pauillac-like expression from Napa Valley, this features smoky, toasty oak from the get-go, framing the intense flavors of earth, crushed rock and gravelly dried dark berry. I imagine the 2013 may even eclipse this, but this 2012 is one of their great ones, with a seamless integration of acidity, tannin, alcohol and wood all present in this beautiful, full-bodied wine that should drink well for 25-30 years." - RP, 96 points They have continued to strengthen the quality of wine and seem to have produced a brilliant, world-class wine. This Pauillac lookalike, made by the staff at Mouton Rothschild, is a beauty. A classy, complex, suave and savory 2012 Opus One, with notes of toasty oak and crème de cassis. "The iconic 2012 Proprietary Red Opus One is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, 6% Merlot and 2% Malbec aged 18 months in French oak. This is 79% cabernet sauvignon, 7% cabernet franc, 6% merlot, 6% petit verdot and 2% malbec" - James Suckling, 97 points Hard not to drink now but better in 2018. Tight and compacted tannins with beautiful fruit and great length. Full body with seamless tannins and balance. Hints of mint too, plus hazelnut and chocolate. "Glorious purity of fruit here with black currants, blueberries, dark chocolate, fresh herbs and forest floor. This refined and age-worthy wine simultaneously offers a long lingering finish, with lively acidity and a sturdy structure at the close. The wine's round mouthfeel and satiny tannins wrap around classic flavors of cassis,blackberry and black cherry. The 2012 Opus One effuses fresh dark fruit aromas accentuated by subtler notes of forest-floor and graphite. REDUCED SHIPPING FEE OF $13.99 FOR ORDERS BELOW S$300.Ī blend of Cabernet Sauvignon 79%, Cabernet Franc 7%, Petit Verdot 6%, Merlot 6% and Malbec 2%.We’re thrilled to have earned the opportunity to bring this one-of-a-kind wine to your cellar. Raised for 19 months in new French oak barriques that were made to precise specifications by 12 different coopers, it’s one of the greatest vintages the winery has produced in the 40+ years since the Bedroom Summit. It was founded in 1979 as a collaboration between Napa Valley winemaker Robert Mondavi and Bordeauxs Baron Philippe de Rothschild. Opus One is a luxury winery based in Napa Valley, California. The 2019 vintage contains all five Bordeaux varieties and is dominated by 78% Cabernet Sauvignon. Opus One Opus One Red Wine 2013 (750 ml) JS: 100. From vineyard to tank, the journey rarely takes over 12 hours. At harvest, the fruit goes directly into the immaculate winery, where 170 acres’ worth of grapes are judged, one by one, as worthy or unworthy of Opus One. A powerful and poised wine with well-crafted. ![]() Opus One grows on four unique vineyard plots in the choicest section of Oakville: the Ballestra and River Parcels, which flank the winery itself, and To Kalon North and South, located across Highway 29. One of the best ever from Opus, it shows beautiful blackcurrant Cabernet Sauvignon character. Wine Advocate gave it 97–99-higher than 16 of the last 20 vintages rated-and called it “a truly magnificent Opus One in the making!” Grown in one of the top vintages of the past decade, James Suckling gave it a near-perfect 99-point score. There’s no doubt that we are currently in Opus One’s Golden Age, and with the 2019, winemaker Michael Silacci is pushing the standard ever higher. The idea had been cooking since the men first met eight years earlier, and now-as we offer you the 41st vintage-Opus One is simply one of the great wines of the world. In 1978, in what’s known as the Bedroom Summit, Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild cemented their plan for Opus One.
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A little life sparknotes11/27/2023 ![]() r/literature, r/literatures, and r/AskLiteraryStudiesĬLICK HERE for the monthly read schedule! Spoilers.r/books weekly threads Recommendations, whatcha reading, much more.Other Reddit bookclubs If bookclub's not your bag of tea, there are a bunch of Reddit alternatives.This sidebar not all squished up on the side of the page.Wiki - suggestions for how to use the sub, navigation for old posts, web sites with interesting stuff for readers.They are out of context but allow you to quickly skim back thru all responses All recent comments, not organized by thread.Meta - posts about bookclub initiatives.You can start a Campaign thread for a book at any time.You can post pointers to conversations in other subs or websites about current or previous selections.Posts with suggestions/criticisms of the sub itself ("meta") are welcome.You can post about any of our current or previous selections at any time.Mods will remove most posts (arbitrary exceptions per mod whim) that don't fall into one of these Here are the full rules about what's on-topic and an overview of the types of posts with funny tags Post Content: Posts don't have to be insightful or deep. Vision/Audience mostly geared to literary/classic fiction, but we are open to everything! more. About r/bookclub CLICK HERE for the monthly read schedule! or go to /r/bookclub We only ask, if you are ahead of the schedule, mark your posts with a tag. Read at your own pace, create new threads at your leisure, and have fun. The selected book of the month will have a schedule but you don't have to observe the schedule. There are specific channels for the monthly selections as well. Feel free to discuss anything in that server. We have started a Discord server for additional discussion. If you believe your post was removed in error, please contact the mods! Each book is read over the course of a month, typically with one or two check-ins each week posted by a mod.Ĭan I post about other books? Most activity is for books selected (by vote) for the current month, but you can post about any previous selection anytime.ĭon't post about other topics until you read the FAQ if you post about a random book we delete your post. Discussion schedules are posted shortly thereafter. Winners are posted a week or so before the end of the month. The book with the most upvotes is selected for the next month's read. Anyone can suggest a book to read (you DON'T have to lead the discussions if you suggest a book - the mods will do that!). How do we pick books? About halfway through each month, we create a thread for suggestions for the next month's read.
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Filmora x11/27/2023 ![]()
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![]() ![]() To conduct business and deliver products and services, Pearson collects and uses personal information in several ways in connection with this site, including: Questions and Inquiriesįor inquiries and questions, we collect the inquiry or question, together with name, contact details (email address, phone number and mailing address) and any other additional information voluntarily submitted to us through a Contact Us form or an email. Please note that other Pearson websites and online products and services have their own separate privacy policies. This privacy notice provides an overview of our commitment to privacy and describes how we collect, protect, use and share personal information collected through this site. Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about Peachpit products and services that can be purchased through this site. The variation here is that you use Adobe Bridge as a visual browser for effects presets. In that section, you learned how to apply an effect from the Effects & Presets panel and how to edit and animate the properties of that effect in the Effect Controls panel (or the Timeline panel). This workflow is a variation on the standard effects workflow you read about in “Applying an Effect to a Layer,” in Chapter 2. Use the Preview panel to play back the composition so that you can see how the animated background looks in the composition. The effects preset should be applied to the solid layer that was selected when you chose the Browse Presets command in the Effects & Presets panel. If that doesn’t work, apply the effects preset from the Effects & Presets panel in After Effects.ĭouble-click the selected effects preset, and switch back to After Effects. If double-clicking an effects preset in Bridge doesn’t automatically apply it to the selected layer in After Effects, try selecting the effects preset in Bridge before double-clicking it. You can use the controller in the Preview panel to start, stop, scrub, and loop the preview. The Preview panel should show a preview of the selected effects preset ( Figure 3.3). If you can’t even see the Preview panel tab, choose Window > Preview. If you can’t see the Preview panel, it may be grouped with the Publish panel. If the Preview panel isn’t visible, click its tab to bring it forward it may be grouped with the Publish panel. For example, selecting a video file displays some of its properties, and selecting an Adobe Illustrator file lists the color plates and swatches in use in that file. ![]() When you select some document types saved by other Adobe applications, you can take advantage of similar enhanced browsing in the Metadata panel. You can also use Bridge to play a selected video file. In this lesson, you learn how you can see animated previews of effects presets in Bridge. Adobe provides the Bridge application as a way of more effectively browsing items such as graphics files, video files, and some types of effects. But the desktop is often inadequate for browsing visual or dynamic media, because desktop folder windows are typically limited to showing filenames and static thumbnail images. At first glance, Adobe Bridge may appear to simply duplicate browsing files on your Windows or macOS desktop.
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Conway game of life question11/27/2023 “For many problems, you don’t have a lot of choice in dataset you get the data that you can collect, so if there is a problem with your dataset, you may have trouble training the neural network,” Springer says. As for the training dataset, in many cases, it isn’t clear which samples are the right ones, and in others, there’s not much of a choice. The most common practice is to pick random values from a normal distribution, therefore settling on the right initial weights becomes a game of luck. Unfortunately, you never know what the initial weights of the neural network should be. ![]() The result of training the neural network was largely affected by the chosen set training examples as well as the initial parameters. This would imply that the AI model had managed to parameterize the rules underlying the Game of Life.īut in most cases the trained neural network did not find the optimal solution, and the performance of the network decreased even further as the number of steps increased. The only way the neural network could reach 100 percent accuracy would be to converge on the hand-crafted parameter values. They initialized the parameters to random values and trained the neural network on 1 million randomly generated examples of the Game of Life. Then, they tried to see if the same neural network could reach optimal settings when trained from scratch. Jacob Springer, computer science student at Swarthmore College This proved that there’s a minimal neural network that can represent the rule of the Game of Life. In their work, the researchers first created a small convolutional neural network and manually tuned its parameters to be able to predict the sequence of changes in the Game of Life’s grid cells. If the network fails even once, then it is has not correctly learned the rules,” Springer says. ![]() It is also very easy to adjust the flexibility of the problem in the Game of Life by modifying the number of timesteps in the future the target deep learning model must predict.Īlso, unlike domains such as computer vision or natural language processing, if a neural network has learned the rules of the Game of Life it will reach 100 percent accuracy. “We can write down by hand a neural network that implements the Game of Life, and therefore we can compare the learned solutions to our hand-crafted one. “We already know a solution,” Jacob Springer, a computer science student at Swarthmore College and co-author of the paper, told TechTalks. There are a few reasons the Game of Life is an interesting experiment for neural networks. With neural networks being very good prediction machines, the researchers wanted to find out whether deep learning models could learn the underlying rules of the Game of Life.Īrtificial neural networks vs the Game of Life Interestingly, no matter how complex a grid becomes, you can predict the state of each cell in the next timestep with the same rules. You can also use the Game of Life to create very complex pattern, such as this one.
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Cdl test in punjabi california11/27/2023 ![]() Remember that you'll also need to fill out the Medical History portion of the MER form (MCSA-5875) and also obtain a copy of the Medical Examiner Certificate form (MCSA-5876). By studying our CDL practice tests, you'll be on your way to obtaining your Class A CDL, Class B CDL, or Class C CDL license. Just as states typically require you to pass specialized knowledge tests on those topics, we offer our own specialized practice tests on air brakes, combination vehicles, and hazardous materials. No, we certainly did not forget about air brakes, combination vehicles, or hazardous materials! These topics are complex enough to deserve separate treatment. These topics include aggressive drivers, braking techniques, cargo safety, distracted drivers, drunk driving laws, emergency preparedness, road and weather conditions, and safe backing. This practice exam covers a wide range of topics that you'll need to know about to pass your CDL knowledge test and enter the trucking industry. Please read each explanation it is based on your state's CDL manual and DMV/DOT website. We want you to be able to answer questions on those topics correctly even if they are worded a bit differently. ![]() ![]() Each correct answer comes with an explanation that has been carefully written to help you become more familiar with the topic of the question. Most of the questions come with a hint to help you choose the right answer. These questions are phrased like the ones on your state's official knowledge test. Every practice test has multiple-choice questions in the same format you'll find on your state's CDL test. Think of this as your own CDL study guide for each endorsement. It helps let other drivers know what you are planning on doing.Pre-Trip Inspection endorsement 3 Practice Tests, 1 Marathon, 1 Exam If the bus is pulled over to the side of the road and their lights are flashing, do not pass. If your test administrator asks you to change lanes, make sure that it is safe first. Only change lanes when you are absolutely certain that it is safe.Always look over your shoulder before changing lanes and be sure to use your blinker.Do not cross solid lines as this will result in an instant and automatic fail.As a general rule, you should be able to see the tires of the car in front of you. Don’t stop too closely to the vehicle in front of you when you need to come to a stop.Follow at a safe distance - use the 3 second rule.Hold onto the steering wheel with both hands at all times. Drive the speed limit and maintain a constant speed.Whether it's schoolwork or other things happening in your life, it needs to be temporarily put to the back of your mind. Leave everything else at the door, and give your full attention to the task at hand. Paying attention to the road, and what's happening around you is the best way to ensure that whatever the examiner is writing down is positive – and you can read all of that once your test is over anyway. Trying to sneak a peek at what they're writing down or their facial expressions is not a good idea, if you're hoping to walk out of there a licensed driver. It sounds obvious enough, but it's easy to get distracted by what the evaluator is doing. Only getting out to drive on beautiful, sunny days will only work against you if your test lands on a rainy, overcast day. The only true way to do this is get in those hours of practice driving, and trying to do so in a variety of weather conditions. Whether it's weather conditions, an ambulance coming down the road or any other situation that could happen, you should be mentally prepared to adapt and adjust accordingly. There are things you'll learn while driving that you just can't get from reading, so it's important to log plenty of time at the wheel. Like anything else, learning how to be a good driver takes lots of time behind the wheel practicing. The way each car's brake and gas pedals react can be different, so knowing how sensitive these are can help you avoid braking or accelerating too aggressively or too slowly. You'll want to know where the controls are for everything from the lights to the windshield wipers, so you aren't frantically searching if it starts raining. The car you're using for your test should be familiar to you, and not one that you're sitting in for the first time. What to practice for the driving test? Know your car |