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Home / Driving Information / The Vehicle / Becoming Familiar with your Automobile

In order to be efficient and react quickly to changing road conditions, you need to know the layout of your automobile. The most important things such as turning signals, headlights, windshield wipers, and hazard lights need to identified immediately right after you get in a car. You also need to know the components of the instrumentation panel and read the messages on your dashboard. Suddenly changed conditions can significantly affect your driving, so you need to react to the conditions immediately, so before hitting the road, make sure that you know the functions and locations of all the interior mechanisms of your car.