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• If other vehicles are lined up to pass a slow

vehicle, wait your turn. But take care that

someone is not trying to pass you as you pull

out to pass the slow vehicle. Remember to

glance over your shoulder and check the

blind spot.

• Check your vehicle’s mirrors, glance over your

shoulder, and start your left lane change signal

before moving out of the right lane to pass.

When you are far enough ahead of the passed

vehicle to see its front in your vehicle’s inside

mirror, activate the right lane change signal and

move back into the right lane. Remember that

an outside convex mirror makes the vehicle you

just passed seem farther away from you than it

really is.

• Try not to pass more than one vehicle at a time

on two-lane roads. Reconsider before passing

the next vehicle.

• Do not overtake a slowly moving vehicle too

rapidly. Even though the brake lamps are not

ﬂashing, it might be slowing down or starting

to turn.

• If you are being passed, make it easy for the

following driver to get ahead of you. Perhaps

you can ease a little to the right.

Loss of Control

Let us review what driving experts say

about what happens when the three control

systems — brakes, steering, and

acceleration — do not have enough friction

where the tires meet the road to do what the

driver has asked.

In any emergency, do not give up. Keep trying to

steer and constantly seek an escape route or

area of less danger.

Skidding

In a skid, a driver can lose control of the vehicle.

Defensive drivers avoid most skids by taking

reasonable care suited to existing conditions, and

by not overdriving those conditions. But skids

are always possible.

The three types of skids correspond to your

vehicle’s three control systems. In the braking skid,

the wheels are not rolling. In the steering or

cornering skid, too much speed or steering in a

curve causes tires to slip and lose cornering force.

And in the acceleration skid, too much throttle

causes the driving wheels to spin.

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