1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Owner's Manuals

Steering Wheel Touch Controls (Option) 8S FAN: Press the up or down arrows to increase or
decrease fan speed.
TEMP: Press the up or down arrows to change the
temperature setting for the driver.
VOL: Press the up or down arrows to increase or
decrease volume.
SEEK: Press the button to tune to the next radio station.
If a tape or compact disc is playing, the player will
advance to the next selection.
’ PROG: Press to play a station you have programmed on
the radio preset buttons.
You
can control certain comfort control and audio -
system functions using the buttons on your steering
wheel.
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I Section 4 Your Driving and the Road
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Here you’ll find information about driving on different
kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We’ve
also included many other useful tips onldriving.
Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive
defensively.
Please start with
a very important safety device in your
Oldsmobile: 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.
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~ ’ Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated with
dnnking and driving is
I a national tragedy.. It’s the number one contributor to the
1 highway death toll, claiming ,thousands of victims every
year.
Alcohol affects four thmgs that anyone needs to drive
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Judgment
0 Muscular Coordination
0 Vision
Attentiveness
Police records show-that almost half of all motor
vehicle-related’deaths involve ‘alcohol.
In most cases,
these deaths are the result of someone who was drinking
, ’ and driving. In recent years; some 18,000 annual motor
vehicle-related deaths have been associated with
the use
of alcohol, with more- than
300,000 people injured.
1 Many adults -- by some estimates, nearly half the adult
‘population
-- choose never to drink alcohol, so they
never drive after drinking. For persons under 21, it’s
-against the law in every
U.S. state to drink alcohol.
developmentd reasons for these laws.
i There are good medical, psychological and
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The obvious way to solve this highway safety problem
is for people never to drink alcohol and then drive. But
what if people do? How much is “too much” if the
driver plans to drive? It’s 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 Concentration (BAC) of someone
who is drinking depends upon four things:
How much alcohol consumed
The drinker’s body weight
0 The amount of food that is consumed before and
during drinking
The length of time it has taken the drinker to
consume the alcohol
According to the American Medical Association, a 180-pound
(82 kg) person who drinks three 12-ounce
(355 ml) bottles of beer in an hour will end up with a
BAC of about
0.06 percent. The,person would reach the
same BAC by drinking three 4-ounce (120 ,ml) glasses
of wine or three mixed drinks if each had 1-1/2 ounces
(45 ml) of a liquor like whiskey, gin or vodka.
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It’s the amount of alcohol that counts. For exmple, if
the same person
&ads three double martinis (3 ounce$
or
90 ml of liquor each) within an hour, the person’s
BAC would be close to 0.12 percent. A person who
consumes fb.od
just before or during drinking will have a
somewhat lower BAC level.
There
is a gender difference, too. Women generally have
a lower relative percentage of body water than men.
Since alcohol is carried in body water,
this means that a
woman generally will reach a higher
BAC level than a

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Anti-Lock Brakes (A S)
Your Oldsmobile has an advanced electronic braking
system that
will help prevent a braking skid.
This light on the instrument
panel will come on briefly
when you start vour vehicle.
RPM X1000
When you start your vehicle, or when you begin to drive
away, you may hear a momentary motor or clicking
noise. And you may even notice that your brake pedal
moves a little while this is going on. This
is the ABS
system testing itself. If there’s a problem with the
anti-lock brake system, the anti-lock brake system
warning light will stay on or flash.
See “Anti-Lock Brake System Warning Light”
in the
Index.
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