Motoring, Near Sight, and Danger.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 362

Motoring, Near Sight, and Danger.

If, as the speeds of the motor traffic increase, the sight of the motor driver were also to increase the case against allowing the nearsighted to grapple a driving wheel would be less strong. It makes one think ; one must know all the points of the motor, and have a license after proper test. But one must also see ; and there must be a test of that. Some people think this test should be similar to the test of locomotive drivers' sight, though not necessarily quite so severe, although to be really effective it should not fall short of the severity of the test for a locomotive driver ; and other people who urge that short sighted men hunt, shoot, golf, etc., forget that these men have nothing to do with the control of a moving vehicle ; therefore they are not suitable to be cited as examples in comparison with an automobile driver. As regards the case of a cyclist, well ! logically he ought to be subject to test also, most certainly if he runs a motor C3 r cle an 4

takes pride in running it up to 40 miles an hour on the road and 60 on the hard beaches of the ocean. If he insists on an unsafe pleasure, this man ought to be made as safe as possible.