1993 Oldsmobile Silhouette Owner's Manual - Page 169

Leaving the Fkeeway If you are moving from an outside to a center lane on a freeway having more than two lanes, make sure another vehicle isn't about to move into the same spot. Look at the vehicles two lanes over and watch for telltale signs: turn signals flashing, an increase in speed, or moving toward the edge the lane. Be of prepared to delay your move. Once you are moving on the freeway, make certainyou allow a reasonable following distance. Expect to move slightly slower at night. When you want to leave the freeway, move to the proper lane well advance. in Dashing across lanesat the last minute is dangerous. If you miss your exitdo not, under any circumstances, stop and back up. Drive onto the next exit. At each exit pointis a deceleration lane. Ideally it should be long enough foryou to enter it at freeway speed (after signaling, of course) and thendo your braking before moving onto the exit ramp. Unfortunately, not a l deceleration l lanes are long enough-some are too short for all the braking. Decide when to start braking. If you must brake on the through lane, and if there is traffic close behind you, you can allow a little extra time and flash your brake lights (in addition to yourturn signal) as extra warning thatyou are about to slow down and exit. The exit ramp can becurved, sometimes quite sharply. The exit speed is usually posted. Reduce your speed according to your speedometer, not to your sense of motion. After driving for any distanceat higher speeds, you may tend to think you are going slower than you actually are. For example, 40 mph (65 km/h) might seem like only mph (30 km/h). 20 Obviously, this could lead to serious trouble on a ramp designed for mph 20 (30 M h ) ! I67