| Show WE Wi DRIVERS I A it Sulu Sm of o oDrie Drie DM D lo on Oil Driving Dedicated Dedi Ded Bated I to the h Safety Sa Corn Comfort and OM Pleasure p pJ she he lA Motoring Public Prepared ep red redby e by General Mot Motors f oto on No 1 3 MIST AND FOG Oo o WHO LANs as 55 there these Is light we may skip around at a lively rate over this old SiS of curs ours We may span oceans In surprising time We may cross the to continent from up sunup to sun gun and then Mother Nature decides daisies But now new t to put us w every in our place and of all her devices to make makey ga 1 0 II t u us Ill slow down none is fa more effective than mist and 1 f t ii fog fo v f ti p t 7 Now we may not have to contend with fog tog and r 4 ff mist very frequently but were we're bound to now and t IJ then and when we do it can cause us a lot lop of annoyance annoy annoy- n s w ti tad and d tr trouble bl Ii t. t I ance Bate Il ou e. e t I Y When a good heavy fog fag comes comeS on on land at sea Ji I lf or In the air everything everything that moves moves with kf caution The ocean liner slows down dawn several knots f I an sA hour Lightships signal buoys sound and foghorns their and cancel trips boom Airlines ground planes i Even Eves trains on tracks reduce their speed speed and and we ff J drivers on the highways too must make our way cautiously through that baffling screen For one are thing is true In spite of ot allour all allour our progress transportation still depends on pairs of eyes in n human heads Scientists who have studied fog tOg say that it Is composed of tiny Uny drops of water These drops are areco areso areso so co small and light that they thel hang in fn the air and so close together that light can hardly hazily get through gh them Instead these little drops act like tiny Uny convex LiGHT c mirrors When we try to pierce them with a beam of at BEAM light a great deal of it is thrown right back at us so the effect is just like a great gleaming white curtain cur thin tain in front of us Experienced drivers say that the first thing to dois do doIs doIs Is to get our lights right The main thing is to direct the beams downward If we have them shining straight ahead those little mist-drop mist mirrors reflect ILLUMINATION tho the rays back in fn our OUT eyes But if it they're pointing downward the rays are deflected defected toward the road Then they say Its It's a good Idea to guide by the road edge at our right and if we have a spotlight on our car to focus it t right on that road edge close to the front of the car so the edge will be clearly r wed lighted But we have to keep a good weather eye r. r i w v r i ahead too because fog veils more than the road rondo It Ity t. t 1 ii r 1 i hides not only things on the road but such thIngs es ns J roadside of and hills and inter Inter- warnings curves i i Fj f settlers sections Even van the traffic lights light's red and green signal 51 1 M. M Ti i rry W e toys rays have the same hard time Ume that our h headlights 1 1 i. i do getting through that strange haze In fact in a r i a good heavy fog the best we can do for lor our vision Is iJ lk none too good And so the main thing is to slow dow down t I i r The me ships have to do it ft the trains have to do it ft and f i we have to do der it too It If we wont won't make up our minds to that they tell us the be best t thing we can do is s to pull of off the road or if we have not yet started out we had better just stay home h But seeing in fog and mist is only half halt the story We not only have to to tee see but we also have ha to be seen Our headlights properly adjusted are strong r I- I p I enough to do their duty in fn pointing us out to people C coming from the opposite direction And in fn addition iff f some drivers us use their horns like foghorns by giving a i them a toot loot every now and then But another thing gJ II 8 Y we have to think of at is to be sure drivers behind us 1 0 l' l see us That's That s why its it's so important to have our stop- stop gJ m signal and light toil working when were we're driving Ing in n g t Iii fog And so It its it's s a good thing to make sure that these s 1 lights are working and to wipe of off those little red glasses if it they happen to be covered with mud If U the weathers weather's clear and our light tall has gone out the t other fellows fellow's lights may point us out fairly welL But If U his headlights are fighting fog they cant can't do much Iia to protect us s So when all aU is s sd s d and d done driving in n fog foe Jaan Ja fa just a matter of having our headlights an an- tall tail tail-H ts s right and being a little more careful It we do that we can dav i our C m cars safely even through Natures Nature s stubborn obstacles of mIst and Z t g. |
