1993 Oldsmobile Bravada Owner's Manual - Page 124

Your Driving and the Road Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Oldsmobile: Buckle up. (See the Index under Safety Belts.) Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything." On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume thatpedestrians or other drivers are going to be careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready for their mistakes. Expect children todash out from behind parked cars, often followed by other children. Expect occupants inparked cars to open doors into traffic. Watch for movement in parked cars-someone may be about to.open a door, Expect other drivers to run stop signs when you are on a through street. Be ready to brake if necessaryas you go through intersections. You may not have to use the brake, but ifyou do, you will be ready. If you're driving through a shopping center parking lot where there are wellmarked lanes, directional arrows, and designated parking areas, expect some drivers to ignore all these markings and dash straight toward one part of the lot. Pedestrians can be careless. Watch for them. In general, you must give way to pedestrians even if you know you have the right of way. Rear-end collisionsare about the most preventable of accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following 122