1998 Pontiac Grand Am Owner's Manual - Page 159
1998 Pontiac Grand Am Manual
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Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can about driving is: give Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Pontiac: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" the Index.) in Defensive driving really means "be ready anything." for or On city streets, rural roads freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians other drivers are going to be or careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready for their mistakes. Rear-end collisions are about most preventableof the accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following distance. It's best defensive driving the driving. You never maneuver, in both city and rural know when the vehicle in front of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. 4-2