The ultimate goal of the research described in this paper is to develop a set of instructional objectives for driver education courses based on a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the driver's task. There are two phases--first, an analysis of the driver's tasks; second, a set of instructional objectives developed from results of the task analysis. The task analysis is described in this paper. It consists of three activities: (1) the analysis proper--reduction of the driver's tasks into their component behaviors, (2) a criticality evaluation--an attempt to assess the importance of each behavior to safe and efficient driving, and (3) the development of task descriptions--preparation of a booklet containing the results of the task analysis and a criticality evaluation. (Author)