1998 Pontiac Bonneville Owner's Manual - Page 187

0 Check your mirrors, glance over your shoulder, and start your left lane change signal before moving out to of the right lane pass. When you are far enough to ahead of the passed vehicle see its front in your inside mirror, activate your right lane change signal and move back into the right lane. (Remember that your right outside mirror convex. The vehicle you is just passed may seem to be farther away from you than it really is.) Try not to pass more than one vehicle a time at on two-lane roads. Reconsider before passing the next vehicle. too Don't overtakea slowly moving vehicle rapidly. Even though the brake lampsare not flashing,it may starting to turn. be slowing down or If you're being passed, make easy for the it following driver to get ahead you. Perhaps you of can easea little to the right. In any emergency, don't give up. Keep trying to steer and constantly seek an escape route or areaof less danger. Skidding In a skid, a driver can lose control the vehicle. of skids by taking reasonable Defensive drivers avoid most care suited to existing conditions, and by not "overdriving" those conditions.But skids are always possible. The three types of skids correspond to your vehicle's three control systems.In the braking skid, your wheels aren't rolling.In the steeringor cornering skid,too much speedor steering in a curve causestires to slip and lose cornering force. And the acceleration skid, too in the much throttle causes driving wheelsto spin. A cornering skidis best handledby easing your foot f of the accelerator pedal. If you have the traction control system, remember: It helps avoid only the acceleration skid. If you do not have traction control, if the system or is off, then an acceleration skidis also best handled by easing your foot the accelerator pedal. off 0 0 0 Loss of Control Let's review what driving experts say about what happens when the three control systems (brakes, steering and acceleration) don't have enough friction where the tires meet the road to what the driver has asked. do 4-14