1993 Pontiac Grand Am Owner's Manual - Page 139

Your Driving and the Road Off-Road Recovery You may find sometime that your right wheels have dropped off the edge of a road onto the shoulder while you're driving. If the level of the shoulder is only slightly below the pavement, recovery should be fairly easy.Ease off the accelerator and then, if there is nothing in the way, steer so that your vehicle straddles the edge of the pavement. You can turn the steering wheel up to 9 turn 4 until the rightfront tire contacts the pavement edge. Then turn your steering wheel to gostraight down the roadway. If the shoulder appears to be about four inches (100 mm) or more below the pavement, this difference can cause problems. If there is not enough room to I . . Passing pull entirely onto the shoulder and stop, then follow the same procedures. But if the right front tire scrubs against the side of the pavement, do not steer more sharply. With too much steering angle, the vehicle may jump back onto the road with so much steering input that it crosses over into the oncoming traffic before you can bring it back under control. Instead, ease off again on the accelerator and steering input, straddle the pavement once more, then try again. The driverof a vehicle about to pass another on a two-lane highway waits for just the right moment, accelerates, moves around the vehicleahead, then goes back into the right lane again.A simple maneuver? Not necessarily! Passing another vehicle on a two-lanehighway is a potentially dangerous move, since the passing vehicle occupies the same lane as oncoming traffic for several seconds. A miscalculation, an error in judgment, or a brief surrender to frustration anger or can suddenly put the passing driver face to face with the worst of all traffic accidents-the head-on collision. 138