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Show HAND SIGNALING BY DRIVERS NEGLECTED Five Maneuvers Indicated by Arm Hung Out Over Side. Relative to safe and sane automobile automo-bile traffic control, It Is hard to understand under-stand why such an Important matter as hand signaling by drivers has been universally neglected. At present, If at all, the arm Is hung limply over the side of the car and Is supposed to Indicate In-dicate one of Ave maneuvers right turn, left turn, complete turn, reverse or stop. Any decently cautious driver, not being a mind reader, naturally slows down because the signal is not intelligible in-telligible and the entire line of traffic traf-fic is retarded correspondingly. If the signal of the leading car had been a definfte one, there would be little need for such confusion. Adoption of an accepted signal code is the only solution to" this difficulty and would not be a difficult thing to accomplish. It Is possible that the complete turn signal could be eliminated and with the aid of four others complete Information In-formation transmitted to the car behind. be-hind. For instance the left arm extended horizontally from the car with fist closed and one finger extended could indicate a left turn. The hand extended ex-tended with palm forward could Indicate Indi-cate a right turn. Hand extended with palm to the rear could indicate reverse. re-verse. Arm raised up and down could indicate a stop. At present, drivers employ signals of their own invention or use the same signal to indicate one of many moves consequently, the signaling is nearly valueless. The fact that there is an attempt to use these signals shows how willing drivers would he to use a definite system if one were provided for them. |