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Check
your
mirrors, glance over your shoulder and.
start your left lane change signal before-moving out
of the right.lane to pass. When you are far enough
ahead
of
the passe.d vehicle to see
its
front in your
inside
- 0 1 ,
activate your right lane change sigmd
and-move back into the. ri,ght lane. (Remember that
your-right outside ,mirror is convex. The vehicle you
juslpassed may
seem
to be farther away
from
y6u
than it really is.)
Tfy not
co
p.ass mufe ,than one vehicle
,at
a time
on
two-lane'roads. Reconsider before passing the
next vehicle.
D.on':t overtake-.a slowly
moving
vehi-de too rapidly.
Even though the
brake
-1amp.s are not flashing, it m.a.y
be slowing down or starting to, turn.
Qi
If+
you're being .passed, make it
easy-
for the
fallowing driver to get..ahead .of you. Perh,aps you
can ease.& little to the right.
Let's
review what driving expmts s-ay
about
what
happens when the thre.e con.trol systems- (brakes., steering,
and,acceleration) don't have enough friction where the
tifes
"meet the road to do what the drivt?r has asked..
In any emergency, don't
give
u p Keep
trying
to
steer and constantly seek an escape route-or a e a of
less danger.
In
a. skid, a driver
cn
lose control of .the vehicle, Defensive
drivers .avoid most skids by taking reasonable care suited
t9
existing conditiolrs, and by not "overdriving" those
conditions.. But- ,&ids are always
-pa.ssible.
The three typcis of skids correspond
to
your vehicle's
three c'0ntro1 syst,erns. In. the. brakifig skid, y0.m whe.eIs
aren't rpl.ling. L n the steering or- cornering skid, too
much speed or steering in
a
curve causes tires: to slip and
lase cornehg, foxce,. And. in the acceleration
skid,
too
much
throttle causes the driving wheels- to spin.
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