INCOMPETENT DRIVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 6

INCOMPETENT DRIVING.

I trust that you will allow me- epace to express publicly my views on the standard of car drivers in this city. Day after day in the city and suburbs I have seen the «noet glaring examples of incompetently, carelessness, ignorance of the elementary rule* of driving to the public safety, and lack of consideration for fellow motorists. It appears to me that driving licence* inuet be much too eaey to obtain, otherwise some that possess same would never qualify. Taxi drivers, too, are not exempted. Driving as they do faet, powerful modern cars, with exceilent brakes, they seem to think it clever to utilise these advantages to crowd the motorist off the road, neglecting entirely the rule*, exercfeing, a« they think, their prerogative as "kings of the road. -, I venture to say that the percentage of Auckland drivers of taxis to qualify for a taxi driver's license in London or the larger of the provincial centres of Britain would be so small as to he negligible. There thev are truly the "gentlemen of the road." 7 have lived in Auckland for the last ten years and have seen the rapid growth during that period of motor traffic, bringing with it the host of incompetent motorists, who will. I friuM, be educated in the right way by our new Minister of Trnns|>ort. PUBLIC SAI'KTY.