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• Accelerate evenly and smoothly without jerking the vehicle.
• When decelerating, brake smoothly and evenly, not too hard or too soft.
Under normal circumstances, you shouldn’t ride or pump the brakes.
• Always come to a complete stop. Don’t roll through stops or allow the
vehicle to drift forward or backward at stops.
• When driving a standard transmission vehicle, don’t clash gears, rev or
lug the engine. Also, know how to use the clutch properly to prevent
choppy accelerating and decelerating.
• Make sure you are in a gear that is appropriate for the direction and speed
you are traveling.
• Change gears smoothly and as needed, but don’t coast to a stop with the
gearshift lever in neutral. Once stopped, you may place the transmission
in neutral.
• Check your speedometer occasionally to make sure you are traveling at
a safe and legal speed but be careful not to look at your speedometer too
frequently. Overly frequent checks of your speedometer may cause you
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Direction and space control:
• Whenever you change lanes or turn, you must use your turn signal. Once
you complete a lane change, you must also remember to cancel your
signal if it doesn’t automatically cancel.
• When turning, don’t touch or cross over your lane markings or hit curbs.
• When driving straight ahead, try to keep your vehicle centered within
your lane without weaving outside of the lane markings.
• Don’t turn from or into the incorrect lane.
• When driving on an expressway, in a multi-lane urban area or on a rural
highway, move to the right lane if you are traveling slower than other
trac,orifvehiclesarepassingyouontheright.
• When necessary, come to a complete stop behind stop lines, crosswalks,
sidewalks, or at a safe place before entering an intersection (behind a stop
sign, if practical). If an object is obstructing your vision, you may, after
stopping behind a stop line, crosswalk, etc., roll forward and stop again
as long as you stop before entering the intersection.
• When stopped behind other vehicles, you must be able to see, at a
minimum, the rear tires of the vehicle ahead of you (safe gap). Always
leave enough space to pull out and around the vehicle in front of you
should it be necessary (escape route).