1993 Pontiac Trans Sport Owner's Manual - Page 168

Leaving the Freeway If you are moving from an outside a to center lane on a freeway having more than two lanes, make sure another vehicle isn't about to move into the same spot. Look at the vehicles two lanes over and watch for telltale signs: turn signals flashing, an increase in speed, or moving toward the edge of the lane. Be prepared to delay your move. Once you are moving on the freeway, make certain you allow a reasonable following distance. Expect to move slightly slower at night. When you want to leave the freeway, extra time and flash your brake lights (in addition to your turn signal) as extra move to the proper lane well in advance. Dashing across lanes the last minute warning that you are about to slow at down and exit. is dangerous. If you miss your exitdo not, under any circumstances, stop and The exit ramp can be curved, sometimes back up. Drive on to the next exit. quite sharply. The exit speed is usually At each exit point is a deceleration lane. posted. Reduce your speed according to Ideally it should be long enough for you your speedometer, notto your senseof motion. After driving for distance at any to enter it at freeway speed (after higher speeds,you may tend to think signaling, of course) and then your do you are going slowerthan you actually braking before moving onto the exit ramp. Unfortunately, not all deceleration are. For example,40 mph (65 km/h) might seem like only mph (30 km/h). 20 lanes are long enough-some are too short for all the braking. Decide when Obviously, this could leadto serious 20 trouble on a ramp designed for mph to start braking.If you must brake on (30 km/h)! the through lane, and there is traffic if close behind you, you can allow a little 767 I . .