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REVERSIBLE LANE ON MULTILANE  ROADWAY 
Many  city  roads  and  expressways,  and 
even  bridges,  use  reversible-lane  traffic 
control during  rush hours. 
A red X light 
above  a  lane me

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual 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:

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual 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 vict

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual Your Driving and the Road 
Drunken  Driving (CONT.) 
The law  in  most U.S. states  sets  the 
legal  limit  at  a  BAC  of 
0.10 percent. In 
Canada  the  limit  is 
0.08 percent, and  in 
some  othe

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“I’ll be  careful”  isn’t the right  answer. 
What  if  there’s  an  emergency,  a need  to 
take sudden  action, as  when a child 
darts  into  the  street? 
A person  with  a 
higher 
B

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual 148 
Braking 
Braking  action  involves perception  time 
and reaction  time. 
First, you  have  to decide  to  push  on  the 
brake pedal.  That’s 
perception  time. 
Then you  have  to bring up  y

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual ,zz"Riding"  the  brakes  wears  them 
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costly  brake  replacement  much 
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If you  keep  pace  wi

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OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1993  Owners Manual Your 
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Anti-Lock Brakes (CONE) 
This  light  on  the  instrument  panel  will 
go  on  when  you  start  your  vehicle. 
Your  anti-lock  brake  system  has 
a two- 
part  system  check: 
When  you