Oregon motorcycle: Practice 2

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1. You have started a new prescription medicine and do not know how it affects you. When should you ride?
Ride immediately because a prescription rules out impairment.Test its effect by taking the motorcycle into ordinary traffic.Wait until its effects on safe vehicle operation are understood.Assume your response will match a friend taking the same medicine.
2. A medicine warns against operating heavy machinery. Does that warning include riding a motorcycle?
No; it applies to construction equipment but not road vehicles.No; it applies to trucks but excludes lighter motorcycles.Yes; but it can be ignored when riding on a familiar route.Yes; the warning also applies to operating a motor vehicle.

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You have started a new prescription medicine and do not know how it affects you. When should you ride?
Correct answer: Wait until its effects on safe vehicle operation are understood.
NHTSA advises against driving until you know a new medicine’s effect on judgment, coordination and reaction time. Follow its warnings; do not use a traffic ride as the test.
Source: NHTSA, Dangers of Driving After Taking Prescription Drugs or Over-the-Counter Medicines; Antidepressants, opioids, and other prescription drugs may cause impairment. ↗
A medicine warns against operating heavy machinery. Does that warning include riding a motorcycle?
Correct answer: Yes; the warning also applies to operating a motor vehicle.
NHTSA explains that heavy-machinery warnings include vehicle operation. Do not dismiss a warning because the motorcycle is small or the trip is familiar.
Source: NHTSA, Dangers of Driving After Taking Prescription Drugs or Over-the-Counter Medicines; Antidepressants, opioids, and other prescription drugs may cause impairment. ↗

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