1993 Buick Park Avenue Owner's Manual - Page 191

too-slow driving breaks a smooth traffic flow. Treat the left laneon a freeway as passing lane. a Before changing lanes, check your rearview mirrors. Then use your turn signal. Just before you leave the lane, glance quickly over your shoulder to make sure there another vehicle in your isn't "blind" spot. Entering the Freeway At the entrance there usually a ramp mat leads to the is you freeway. If you have a clearview of the freeway as drive alongthe entrance ramp,you should begin to check traffic. Try to.determine where you expect to blend with the flow. If traffic is light, you may have no problem. But if it is heavy, find a gap as move along you the entering lane time your approach. Try to merge and into the gap at,close to the prevailing speed. Switch on your turn signal, check your rearview mirrors as you move along,and glance overyour shoulder asoften as necessary. Try to blendsmoothly with the traffi.c flow. If you are moving from an outside.to a center lane a on freeway having more than two lanes, make sure another vehicle isn't about tomove into thesame spot. Look at the vehicles two lanes over and watch for telltalesigns: turn signals flashing, increase in speed, ormoving an toward the edgeof the lane.Be prepared to delayyour move. . Once you are moving on the freeway, make certainyou allow a reasonable following distance. Expect to move slightly slower at night. Driving on the Freeway Once you are on the freeway, adjust your speed to the posted limit or to the prevailing rate it's slower. Stay if in the right lane unless you want to 'pass.If you are on a two-lane freeway, treat the right Lane as the slow lane and theleft lane as the passing lane. If you are on a three-lanefreeway, treat theright lane as the slower-speed through lane, the middle lane as the higher-speed through lane,and the left lane as the passing lane. Leaving the Freeway When you want to leave the freeway, move to theproper lane well in advance. Dashing across lanes at the last minute is dangerous. If you miss yourexit donot, under any circumstances, stopand back up. Drive on to the next exit. At each.exit point a'deceleration lane. Ideally is it should be long enough for you to enterit at freeway speed (after signaling,of course) and then do your