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Show u NOVICE DRIVERS. With the great increase in the number of automobiles, a large percentage of the drivers are green at this game. The freshman at the wheel should realize that he is up against a serious proposition. People's temperament soon reveals itself when they get behind an automobile steering gear. There are some who will take long drives passing through busy towns with busy streets, the moment they can seem to keep the car from running into the fences. They run at high speed, wobbling from side to side, with a blind sort of faith that if they get into trouble other people will look out for themselves. Automobile dealers, in their efforts to persuade timid people to learn, argue that it is not the beginners who make the accidents. They say it is the experienced men who grow over confident and careless. There may be something in this, yet the beginner needs to remember that he is in control of a high power machine, the force of which he has not begun to realize. Garage instructors are frequently young fellows with little idea of caution. They are skilful enough to avoid accidents themselves. But they are ventursome and they don't warn inexpert novices of the perils of the road. They frequently encourage beginners to go through crowded streets with gear in high speed, of course throttled throt-tled down as low as it will go. But the beginner and in fact most drivers would better realize that low speed gears were made for operation in crowded streets and should be used. They take a little more gasoline, which makes them unpopular. Butusing them gives the driver a more complete control and he can run at a minimum of speed. Becrinners should realize that when trouble domes it comes all in a flash, and one moment's carelessness may brinf? about a collision that will cause them a life long grief. |