User Guide

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 LIP. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.)
Defensive driving really means "be ready for
anything."
On city streets, rural roads or freeways. it nleans
"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
follonring distance.
It's the best defensive driving
mmeuver.
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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