Defensive Driving 4-2 - Pontiac 1998 Grand Am Owner's Manual

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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