CARE IN DRIVING

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3624, 14 June 1927, Page 7

CARE IN DRIVING

Keep your foot on the clutch despite what experts tell you to the contrary, says an exchange. If the traffic is great keep your foot on the clutch _ Don’t take unnecessary chances on the highway or in the street: glide over the bumps, thus saving your machinery; and don’t forget your brakes Caution is the first law of good sense, when it has to do with forty horse-power. Approaching an intersection, remember clutch and brake. Youths make daring drivers. They go rapidly and easily, with fearless abandon and nonchalance. But they have an unduo share of accidents, arm don’t think enough of clutch and brake. Dh. yes, there are disasters through confusion and through timidity; but they arc not the disasters of the young driver.. Nine-tenths of the wrecks come from going too fast. A good driver will keep control of his machine at all times. He can stop quickly but without a shock. Ho can go slow, as he must when others might be endangered by his fast driving, but can step on the gas and leap ahead when there is opportunity. The person who controls his power all the time is the one who has the opportunities, which in the heavy traffic of life are fleeting and momentary The n;an who has learned is the one who knows, and the one who knows is the one who has opportunities. When one is not in a position to take an advantage it is not an opportunity for him. Therefore the disciplining of the mental powers is, the putting of hand and foot on the various controls of life. Many lives are wrecked by even a momentary loss of control. It is quite the custom to blame some other driver. It is possible . for an automobile to bo wrecked by the carelessness of some other man than the one driving it, and for a life to be ruined by the fault of another; but it is exceedingly rare. When such a calamity occurs it is usually to one who has lost control of his machine, if but for a moment. Keep your foot on the clutch.