1993 Oldsmobile Achieva Owner's Manual - Page 152

Your Diving and the Road SLOW DOWN Of-Road Recovery Passing You may find sometime that your right pull entirely onto the shoulder and stop, The driverof a vehicle about to pass then follow the same procedures. But if another ona two-lane highway waits for wheels have dropped off the edge of a just the right moment, accelerates, the right fronttire scrubs against the road onto the shoulder while you're side of the pavement, do not steer more moves around the vehicle ahead, then driving. goes back into the right lane again.A sharply. With too much steering angle, If the levelof the shoulderis only the vehiclemay jump back onto the road simple maneuver? slightly below the pavement, recovery with so much steering input that it Not necessarily! Passing another vehicle should be fairly easy. Ease off the crosses over into the oncoming traffic on a two-lane highway isa potentially accelerator and then, if there is nothing before you can bring it back under dangerous move, since the passing in the way, steer so that your vehicle vehicle occupies the same lane as straddles the edgeof the pavement. You control. Instead, easeoff again on the can turn the steering wheel up toA turn accelerator and steering input, straddle oncoming traffic for several seconds.A ! the pavement once more, thentry again. miscalculation, an error in judgment, or until the right front tire contacts the a brief surrender to frustration anger or pavement edge. Then turn your steering can suddenly put the passing driver face wheel to go straight down the roadway. to face with the worst all traffic of If the shoulder appears to be about four accidents-the head-on collision. inches (100 mm) or more below the pavement, this difference can cause problems. If there is not enough room to