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Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start with a very important safety device in your
Aurora: 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.
Defensive driving requires that a driver concentrate on
the
driving task. Anything that distracts from
the
driving
task
--
such as concentrating on a cellular telephone call,
reading, or reaching for something on the floor
--
makes
proper defensive driving more difficult and can even
cause a collision, with resulting injury. Ask a passenger
to help do things like this, or pull off the road in a safe
place to do them yourself. These simple defensive
driving techniques could save your life.
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