WHEN IS DANGER DEFINITE?
When the law in Britain changed over from speed limits: to "dangerous driving" it niade an interesting experiment. What is "dangerous driving"? There >is an elasticity about words like "dangerous" an^ "danger" that must persist in spite of definitions. It is now announced in a British Official Wireless message that in London "a new order" has taken effect whereby not only danger but the beginnings of danger will become a subject of warning to motorists and possibly of prosecution. "Motorists whose driving makes them liable to become definitely dangerous" may be warned or prosecuted, and motorists who "display carelessness or lack of consideration on roads" will be subject to increased vigilance by police controls. It seems that the addition of an adverb to the adjective "definitely dangerous," may help to alter human nature. It is at any rate less alarming to proceed in this way—working back from "dangerous" to "definitely dangerous," as distinct, from carelessness and incon-siderateness-Mthan to organise a machine-gunned vigilance committee, as'has sometimes been suggested.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 6
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171WHEN IS DANGER DEFINITE? Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 6
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