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Don’t know your tire pressure from your battery posts? Bone up with our primer, and you’ll be able to do your own maintenance—or at least communicate with your mechanic.

Why does it matter? Doing these five simple things on a regular basis will decrease your chances of a roadside breakdown by 70 percent, auto expert Barbara Terry says.
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Here are our tips and tricks from defensive-driving teachers.

1. Look out.
“Drivers tend to fixate on an object that’s too close like the car bumper right in front of them,” says Jim Clark, lead instructor at the BMW Performance Driving School in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Eighty percent of all accidents could be avoided if a driver had one more second to react, he says. He suggests looking 12 seconds ahead. Find an object in the distance—a highway exit, a storefront—that takes to the count of 12 to reach. “If you look ahead you get a feel for the traffic pattern, but your brain can still process what is happening right in front of you to help you avoid trouble,” he says.
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Here are the things you sometimes do (you know you do) that drastically hike your chances of having an accident.

Talking or texting
Nearly 80 percent of crashes involve driver inattention, and one of the primary causes is—you guessed it—using a cell phone. Texting while driving is also a deadly trend, especially among teens.
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