1996 GMC Sonoma Owner's Manual - Page 129

Section 4 Your Driving and the Road Defensive Driving . . The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your vehicle: 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 are going to be careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready for their mistakes. Here you'll find information about driving on different kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We've also included many other useful tips on driving. 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 in front of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. 4-1