1998 Cadillac Eldorado Owner's Manual - Page 200

Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about drivingis: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device In your Cadillac: 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 aregoing to be careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Beready for their mistakes. Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable of accidents. Yet theyaare 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. 4-2