1997 Buick Regal Owner's Manual - Page 219

Freeway Driving At the entrance, there is usually a ramp that leads to the freeway. If you have a clearview of the freeway as you drive along the entrance ramp, you should begin to check traffic. Try to determine where you expect to blend with the flow. Try to merge into the gap at close to the prevailing speed. Switch on yourturn signal, check your mirrors and glance over your shoulder as often as necessary. Try to blend smoothly with the traffic flow. Once you are on the freeway, adjust your speed to the posted limit or to the prevailing rate if it's slower. Stay in the right lane unless you want to pass. Before changing lanes, check your mirrors. Then use your turn signal. Just before you leave the lane, glance quickly over your shoulder to make sure there isn't another vehicle in your "blind" spot. Once you are moving on the freeway, make certain you allow a reasonable following distance. Expect move to Mile for mile, freeways (also called thruways, parkways, slightly slower at night. expressways, turnpikes or superhighways) are the safest When you want to leave the freeway, move to the proper of all roads. But they have their own special rules. lane well in advance. If you miss your exit, do not, The most important advice on freeway driving is: Keep under any circumstances, stopand back up. Drive on to up with traffic and keep to the right. Drive the same at the next exit. speed most of the other drivers are driving. Too-fast or The exit ramp be curved, sometimes quitesharply. can too-slow driving breaks a smooth traffic flow. Treat the left lane on a freeway as a passing lane.