User Guide

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DEFENSIVE DRIVING FOR YOUR PROTECTION
From the Bondurant School of High-Performance Driving:
• Adjust your seat properly. Sitting upright enables your body to feel and sense
what the vehicle is telling you.
• Scan the entire environment during normal driving conditions.
• Be smooth with your steering, acceleration and braking to keep the vehicle
balanced.
• Watch driving on curves. Drive at a reasonable speed, which may mean you
need to drive slower than the posted speed limit. Driving at a high speed
around curves could cause you to lose control.
• Trail the brakes. This means to ease off the brake pedal slowly as you turn into
a corner. It keeps the weight on your front-steering tires, creating more traction
for the turn.
• Elevate your vision. Things come at you fast when you look only at the vehicle
in front of you. Look 10 to 15 vehicles ahead and you’ll find that everything
comes at you more predictably.
• Turn your wheels with the skid. Taking this action may help you to regain
control of your vehicle. If you have a skid situation, ease off the throttle to
transfer weight back onto the front-steering tires.