1997 Chevrolet Malibu Owner's Manual - Page 149
1997 Chevrolet Malibu Manual
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Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Chevrolet: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready anything." for On city streets, rural roads or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians or other drivers are goingbe to careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be readyfor their mistakes. Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable of accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving maneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never know when the vehicle infront of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. 4-2