Cadillac 1993 Eldorado Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 212)

Switch on your turn signal, check your rearview mirrors as you move

along, and glance over your shoulder as often as necessary.

Try

blend

smoothly with the traffic flow.

Driving on

the Freeway

Once you are on the freeway, adjust your speed to the posted limit or to

the prevailing rate

it’s slower. Stay in the right lane unless you want to

pass.

you are on

two-lane freeway, treat the right lane as the slow lane

and the left lane as the passing lane.

If you are on

three-lane freeway, treat the right lane as the slower-speed

through lane, the middle lane as the higher-speed through lane, and the

left lane as the passing lane.

Before changing lanes, check your rearview mirrors. Then use your turn

signal.

Just before you leave the lane, glance quicklyover your shoulder to make

sure there isn’t another vehicle in your “blind” spot.

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

speed, or moving toward the

edge

the lane. Be prepared

delay your move.

Once you are moving on the freeway, make certain you allow

reasonable following distance. Expect to move slightly slower at night.

Leaving the Freeway

When you want to leave the freeway, move to the proper lane well in

advance. Dashing across lanes at the last minute

dangerous.

you

miss

your exit do not, under

any

circumstances, stop and back up. Drive

the next

exit.

At each exit point is a deceleration lane. Ideally

should be long enough

for you to enter it at freeway speed (after signaling,

course) and then

your braking before moving onto the exit ramp. Unfortunately, not all

deceleration lanes

are

long enough

some

are

too short for all the

braking. Decide when to start braking.

you must brake on

the

through

lane,

and

there

traffic close behind you,

you

can allow a little extra

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