1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Owner's Manual - Page 147
1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Manual
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Defensive Driving The best advice anyone give about driving can is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Oldsmobile: 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 going to be careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready for 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. never You know when the vehicle in front you is going to brake of or turn suddenly. 4-2