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Show AUTOS ARE DAMAGED BY CARELESS OWNER Attention Called to Useless W;ar and Waste of Gas. Passenger Car Driven Should Fsllow Example of Racing Car Pilots and Slow Down for Turns-Start Turns-Start Engine Smoothly. "There Is too much carelessness. In automobile driving," declared an automotive au-tomotive engineer, in calling attention to the useless wear and tear on the car, combined with reckless waste of gasoline. "Did you ever notice," he added, "how some drivers take turds? "A honk of the horna rush of air and they're gone if the road is clear. If It Isn't the brakes lock with a slam, the wheels slide, there's a smell of burned rubber, the clutch is disengaged, disen-gaged, the motor races Its head off.-And off.-And what does this all iaean? Useless Use-less wear on tires, excessive waste of gasoline and oil, severa strains on the engine and certain damage to the brakes. "The greatest racing car pilots slow down for the turns on the track. They do that because they know how to get the best results. I cannot figure fig-ure out why some passenger car drivers driv-ers don't use the same good judgment. "It's absolutely unnecessary to race a motor In making a stop. In starting start-ing all one has to do Is to speed up the motor Just enough to pull away from the curb smoothly. "I feel pretty strongly on this subject, sub-ject, and I believe that a little extra caution on the part of every automobile automo-bile owner will make it possible for all of us to get the utmost out of every drop of gasoline and oil wb use, and at the same time prolong tht life of our cars." |