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Show H CONFLICTING RIGHTS. H It's human nature to be jealous about one's own rights H and very indifferent to those or anyone else. The rela- H tions between the automobile drives and the traveling H public are one of these adjustments where there is need- H less friction. Both classes have certain legal rights, and H a certain standing founded on common courtesy. H The pedestrian is the weaker party and entitled to an H extra legal consideration therefrom. The car is a heavy H weight propelled by an engine powerful enough to turn B the wheels of a mill, and it is capable of 'doing infinite B damage. The driver has no right to assume that every- B one is going to exercise perfect car all the time. B Many people are deaf and near sighted. Children are, B by nature, heedless. They will run out from behind stand- B ing vehicles and cross streets unexpectedly. As we need fl our children more than we need automobiles, the automo- B biles must figure on their careless ways. Also older peo- B pie are often absent minded; The motorist ought to be H going so slowly through the business streets that he can H stop if people do unexpected things. H The pedestrian should realize that a motor car is a H big and rather unwieldy apparatus. The pedestrian can B, stop instantaneously, but it may take several yards to m. check the car. It is much easier for the person to stop B and not try to dodge in front, than for the motorist to ' apply the brakes, throw out clutch, and then after the H person has passed to go through the changes of geai'nec- H essary to recover his speed. H As more people ride in cars, the view point of -both H sides gets to be better understood, and friction ought to H grow less. Unfortunately there is a certain minority of H automobile drivers who seem absolutely indifferent not B merely to considerations of courtesy, but to public safety. |