1938 LaSalle Production - GM Heritage Center

Suggestions
for
Safer Driving
Carbon Monoxide
Always open the garage doors before starting the engine.
The engine exhaust always contains carbon monoxide, a
deadly poisonous gas, which must be allowed to escape outside
the garage.
Everyone knows how to drive these days but, judging
by accident records, everyone does not know how to drive
safely. Although Cadillac drivers as a class are more careful
and skillful than the average, we are including this section
to enable you to check up on your technique and modernize
it where necessary.
Under normal starting and warming up conditions almost
any automobile engine running in a two car garage, with the
doors closed, will accumulate enough gas in three or four
minutes to overcome any occupants. In cold weather, when
the engine requires more choking, the accumulation is even
more rapid.
The suggestions on the next few pages are not driving
lessons; they are simply reminders of ways to make your
driving safer and more comfortable. We ask that you read
them all. Most of them will be familiar but worthy of review.
And among them there will certainly be some that
are new and well worth the few moments required to read
the entire section.
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