1993 Chevrolet Cavalier Owner's Manual - Page 150

Your Driving and the Road Tips on Driving in Fog Everybody then has a better chance to avoid hitting the vehicle ahead. A patch of dense fog may extend only Driving inFog, Mist and Haze for a few feet (meters) or for miles Fog can occur with high humidity or (kilometers); you can't really tell while heavy frost. It can be so mild that you you're in it. You can only treat the can see throughit for several hundred situation with extremecare. feet (meters). Or it might be so thick One common fog condition-sometimes that you can see only a few feet (meters) called mist or ground fog-can happen ahead. It may come suddenly to an in weather that seemsperfect, especially otherwise clear road. And it can be a at night or in the early morning in valley major hazard. and low, marshy areas. You can be When you drive into a fog patch, your suddenly enveloped in thick, wet haze visibility will be reduced quickly. The that may even coat your windshield.You biggest dangers are striking the vehicle can often spot these fog patchesor mist ahead or being struck by the one layers with your headlights. But behind. Try to "read" the fog density sometimes they can be waiting foryou down the road. If the vehicle ahead as you come over a hillor dip into a starts to become lessclear or, at night, if shallow valley. Start your windshield the taillightsare harder to see, the fog is wipers and washer to helpclear probably thickening. Slow down to give accumulated road dirt. Slow down traffic behindyou a chance to slow carefully. down. I48 If you get caught in fog, turn your headlights on lowbeam, even in daytime. You'll see-and be seen-better. Don't use your high beams. The light will bounce off the water droplets that make up fog and reflect back at you. Use your defogger. In high humidity, even a light buildupof moisture on the inside of the glass will cut down on your already limited visibility.Run your windshield wipers and washer occasionally. Moisturecan build up on the outside glass, and what seems to be fog may actually be moisture on the outside of your windshield. Treat dense fog as an emergency. Try to find a placeto pull off the road. Of course you want to respect another's property, but you might need to put