Elementary Driving Rule Analysed
Ono of the first elementary rules of driving a motor-car was recently discussed in an unusual light by the Automobile Association (Auckland). An affiliated organisation asked the association to make a pronouncement, advising members that in stopping a car both feet should lie used to operate brake and clutch, to obviate any possibility of danger through one foot being accidentally placed on the accelejator. Points in the discussion referred to the inadvisability for laying down any hard and fast rule in the matter. Consideration at all times had to be given
to the conditions facing the driver, and therefore the matter had to be left to individual judgment. Skidding was a danger mentioned, and the presence of following cars was another. /The association refused to give a ruling, and its engineer urged motorists to consider having a safety clip lilted to the brake pedal, saying that such clips had proved efficient in eliminating the danger of the foot slipping from rubber-covered pedals on to the accelerator.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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