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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 Corvette: Buckle
up.
(See
the
Index
under
Safety
Belts,)
Defensive driving
redy
means “be
ready for
anything.”
On
city streets,
rural roads,
or
freeways,
it
‘means
“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.
Expect children to dash out
from
behind parked
cars,
often followed
by
other children. Expect occupants
in
parked
cars
to open
doors
into
traffic.
Watch
for
movement
in
parked cars-
someone may
be
about
to open
a
door.
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Expect other drivers to run stop signs
when
you
are
on
a through street.
Be
ready
to
brake
if
necessary as you
gd
through
intersections.
You
may
not
have
to
use the brake,
but
if
you do, you
will be ready.
If you’re driving
through
a
shopping
center parking lot where there are well-
marked lanes, dectional
arrows,
and
designated parking areas, expect some
drivers to ignore all these makings 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 lmow you have
the right of
way.
Rear-end collisions
are
about the most
preventable
of
accidents. Yet they are
common.
Allow
enough following
distance. It’s the best defensive
driving
maneuver, in both. city-and rural
driving.
You
never kmw.when the
vehicle in front
of
you is
going
to brake
or
turn suddenly.
Here’s a
final
bit of information about
defensive driving.
The
most
dangerous
time
for
driving
in
the
U.S
.
is
very
early
on Sunday morning, In fact,
GM
Research studies
show
that the
most
and the least dangerous times
for
driving, every week, fall
on
the
same
day.
That
day
is
Sunday. The most
dangerous
time
is Sunday
from
3
a.m.
to
4
a.m.
The
safest
time
is
Sunday &om
10
a.m.
to
11
a.m.
Driving the
same
distance
on
a Sunday at
3
a.m. isn’t just
a little more dangerous than it is
at
10
am.
It’s
about
134
times more
dangerous!
That leads to the
next
section.
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