1997 Cadillac DeVille Owner's Manual - Page 203

Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Cadillac: Buckle up.(See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready anything." for On city streets, rural roads freeways, it means or "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians other drivers are going be or to careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready for their mistakes. Kear-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 of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. 4-2