Pontiac 1997 Grand Prix Owner's Manual page 196

Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving
is:
Drive defensively.
Please start with
a
very important safety device in your
Pontiac: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts"
in
the Index.)
Defensive driving really means "be ready
for
anything."
On city streets, rural roads or freeways, 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. Be ready for their mistakes.
Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable
of accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough
following distance. It's
the
best defensive 'driving
maneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never
know when the vehicle in front of you is
going to brake
or turn suddenly.
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