1998 Cadillac DeVille Owner's Manual - Page 225

Check your mirrors, glance over your shoulder, and start your leftlane change signal before moving out of the rightlane to pass. When you far enough are ahead of the passed vehicle to its front in your see inside mirror, activate your right lane change signal and move back into the right lane. (Remember that your right outside mirror convex. The vehicle you is just passed may seem be farther away to from you than it really is.) Try not to pass more thanone vehicle at a time on two-lane roads. Reconsider before passing the next vehicle. Don't overtake a slowly moving vehicle too rapidly. Even though the brake lamps are not flashing, it may be slowing down or starting to turn. If you're being passed, makeit easy for the following driver to get ahead you. Perhaps you of can ease a little the right. to In any emergency, don't give up. Keep trying to steer and constantly seek an escape route or area of less danger. Skidding In a skid, a driver can lose control of the vehicle. Defensive drivers avoid most skids by taking reasonable caresuited to existing conditions, and by not "overdriving" those conditions. Butskids are always possible. The three types of skids correspond to your vehicle's three control systems. In the braking skid, your wheels aren't rolling. In the steering or cornering skid, too much speed or steering in a curve causes tires to and slip lose cornering force. And in the acceleration skid, too much throttle causesthe driving wheels to spin. A cornering skidis best handled by easing your foot off the accelerator pedal. Remember: Any traction control system helps avoid only the acceleration skid. If your traction control system off, then an is acceleration skid isalso best handled by easing your foot off the accelerator pedal. Loss of Control Let's review what driving experts say about what happens when the three control systems (brakes, steering the and acceleration) don't have enough friction where tires meetthe road to do what the driver has asked. 4-14