1993 Oldsmobile 88 Owner's Manual - Page 175

Your Lhiving and the Road Driving on the Freeway (CONT) If you are moving from an outside to a center lane on a freeway having more than two lanes, make sure another vehicle isn't about to move the same into spot. Look at the vehiclestwo lanes over and watch for telltale signs:turn signals flashing, an increase in speed,or moving toward the edge of the lane. Be prepared to delay your move. Once you are moving on the freeway, make certain you allow a reasonable following distance. Expect to move slightly slower at night. Leaving the Freeway (in extra time and flash your brake lights When you want to leave the freeway, move to the proper lane well advance. addition to yourturn signal) as extra in Dashing across lanes at the last minute warning that you are about slow to down and exit. is dangerous. If youm i s s your exit do not, under any circumstances, stop and The exit ramp can be curved, sometimes back up. Drive on to the next exit. quite sharply. The exit speed is usually is At each exit point a deceleration lane. posted. Reduce your speed according to Ideally it should be long enough for you your speedometer, not to your sense of motion. After driving for any distance at (after to enter it at freeway speed hn higher speeds, you may tend to t i k signaling, of course) and then do your you are going slower than you actually braking before moving onto the exit ramp. Unfortunately, not all deceleration are. For example, 40 mph (65 km/h) might seem like only mph (32 km/h). 20 lanes are long enough-some are too short for all the braking. Decide when Obviously, this could lead to serious 20 trouble on a ramp designed for mph to start braking. If you must brake on the through lane, and if there is traffic (32 km/h)! close behind you, you can allow a little 174