Chevrolet 1993 Camaro Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 126)

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 Chevrolet: Buckle up.

(See “Safety Belts” in the Index.)

Defensive driving really 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.

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 know when the vehicle in front

of you is going to brake or

turn

suddenly.

Drunken Driving

Death and injury associated with drinking

and driving is a national tragedy. It’s the

number one contributor to the highway

death toll, claiming thousands

of

victims

every year. Alcohol takes away three

things that anyone needs to drive a

vehicle:

Judgment

0

Muscular Coordination

0

Vision

Police records show that almost half of

all motor vehicle-related deaths involve

alcohol

-

a

driver, a passenger or

someone else, such as a pedestrian, had

been drinking. In most cases, these

deaths are the result of someone who

was drinking and driving. About

20,000

motor vehicle-related deaths occur each

year because of alcohol, and thousands

of people are injured.

Just how much alcohol

is

too much

if

a

person plans to drive? Ideally, no one

should drink alcohol and then drive. But

if

one does, then what’s “too much”? It

can be a lot less than many might think.

Although it depends on each person and

situation, here is some general

information on the problem.

The Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of

someone who is drinking depends upon

four things:

How much alcohol is

in

the drink.

The drinker’s body weight.

The amount of food that is consumed

before and during drinking.

The length of time

it

has taken the

drinker to consume the alcohol.

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