Section
4
Your Driving
and
the Road
Here you’ll
find
information about driving on different
kinds of roads and
in
varying weather conditions. We’ve
also included many other useful tips on driving.
Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start
with
a very important safety device
in
your
vehicle: 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 they might
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.
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