1997 Cadillac Catera Owner's Manual - Page 169

L Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Catera: 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 theymight 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. You never know when the vehicle in front of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. 4-2