Your Driving, The Road, And Your Vehicle; Defensive Driving - Hummer 2007 H3 Owner's Manual

Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle

Defensive Driving

The best advice anyone can give about driving
is: Drive defensively.
Please start with a very important safety device
in your vehicle: Buckle up. See Safety Belts: They
Are for Everyone on page 17.
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Defensive driving really means "Be ready
for anything." On city streets, rural roads,
or expressways, it means "Always expect
the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians
or other drivers are going to be careless
and make mistakes. Anticipate what
they might do and be ready. Rear-end
collisions are about the most preventable
of accidents. Yet they are common.
Allow enough following distance.
Defensive driving requires that a driver
concentrate on the driving task. Anything
that distracts from the driving task makes
proper defensive driving more difficult and
can even cause a collision, with resulting
injury. Ask a passenger to help do these
things, or pull off the road in a safe place
to do them. These simple defensive driving
techniques could save your life.