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Show DO NOT TALK TO DRIVER OF AUTO There Is Too Much Driving Being Done From Seats in Rear of Car. There is a sign in the front of most city street cars bearing the words, "Don't Talk to the Motonnan." That sign with even greater emphasis might well lie posted on the front of every windshield. The driver of an automobile has far more need to devote his attention exclusively ex-clusively to the work in hand, thau has the motorman. The latter has a straight one way track ahead of him with two rails to guide him, tiie motorist motor-ist has no such aids to safeguard his eye and hand. Distracts Driver's Attention. Because passengers are in close contact con-tact with the driver there is a definite tendency to distract his attention. The engineer of a locomotive is located where he can give complete attention to the work of operating the train. What the passengers do or say, or think, in no way affects the final results. re-sults. Automobile passengers are to blame for much of the trouble drivers get into. On a count of a number of serious seri-ous accidents it was found that in the majority of rases the drivers were acrompnnied by paseng'Ts. The relatively rela-tively small number of instances whre lone drivers are Involved in scriour accidents seems to support the theory ' that therf Is top much driving being done front the b;ick sea . Con ersation is perhaps the greatest single cause of automobile accidents where passengers are being carried. The driver gets too deep into a subject sub-ject that Interests him, only to sacrifice sacri-fice his attention upon the matter of driving. The less drivers and passengers passen-gers converse about matters which have no direct bearing upon the facts at hand the better It is for both parties. par-ties. Some people feel that they must offer a surfeit of conversation In return re-turn for a driver's courtesy. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Timely Warnings. Where a passenger Is capable of giving the driver valuable warnings he should do so by all means, and the driver ought not to resent being warned when necessary. The passenger passen-ger sees the road from a different angle. His advice may be of considerable consider-able value. "There's a car coining to our left," stated In a nnitter-of-fa'-t way has prevented more accidents than all the excluiuat Ions ami gasps combined. P,ut to keep ii)) a continual chatter on the topirs of the day is as dangerous danger-ous as It Is unnecessary and frequently frequent-ly leads to a collision or an upset in tlit: ditch. |