Show MAKING THE ROADS SAFE acting upon the suggestion of a following a series of tests a chicago taxicab company to la setting up a model street section which will contain in life size about happen to an automobile new drivers will be given their training there before going out into the regular service the national association of taxicab owners Is planning to bring about the establishment of similar training streets in other principal cities of the united states it if this form of training Is good for taxi drivers it would likewise be good for the green driver who has his first experience tit at the wheel of an automobile also a lot of kids who wiio insist on driving papas car and the young lady who persists in cooki looking ng back welin driving down main alain street to see if someone happens to be admiring her ability the physiologist found that to be a safe driver one must not bo be obliged to stop and think what he must do in each instance one brief second might mean the difference between safety and disaster in an emergency the drivers reaction to a street sign a traffic signal or a pedestrian step ping suddenly from the curb should be instantaneous and automatic the road will never nefer be safe for motoring until some sort of system Is worked out whereby arve s are given tests before being permitted to drive cars neither will safety be assured until every state has rural police patrol ing the roads as a constant menace to speeders to hold them in elf taking it easy often in our ofir geating it hard later on |