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Show DO NOT TALK TO DRIVER OF AUTO There Is Too Much Driving Being Done From Seats in Rear of Car. There is a sign in the front of most city street ram bearing t lie words, "Don't Tulk to the Motonnan." That sign with even greater emphasis might well he posted on the front of every windshield. The driver of an automobile has far more need to devote his attention exclusively ex-clusively to the work la hund, thnu has the motonnan. The latter has a straight one way truck ulieud of him with two rails to guide him, the motorist motor-ist has no such aids to safeguard his eye und hand. Distracts Driver's Attention. Iiecuuse passengers are in close contact con-tact with the driver there is a definite tendency to distract his attention. The engineer of a locomotive Is located where he can give complete attention ! to the work of operating the train. What the passengers do or say, or think. In no way ulTects the final results. re-sults. Automobile passengers are to blame for much of the trouble drivers get into. On a count of a number of serious seri-ous accidents it was found that in the majority of cases the drivers were accompanied by pussengers. The relatively rela-tively small number of Instances where lone drivers are Involved In serlousr accidents seems to support the theory that tberf Is top much driving being done from t tie back seat. ConversMion is perhaps the greatest single cause of automobile accidents where passenger are being carried. The driver gets too deep Into a subject sub-ject that Interests him, only to sacrifice sacri-fice his attention upon the matter of driving. The less drivers and passengers passen-gers converse about mutters which have no direct bearing upon the facts at hand the better it is for both parties. par-ties. Some people feel that they must offer a surfeit of conversation In return re-turn for a driver's courtesy. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Timely Warnings. Where a passenger Is capable of giving the driver valuable warnings he should do so by all means, and the driver ought not to resent being warned when necessary. The passenger passen-ger sees t lie mail from a different angle. His advice may be of considerable consider-able value. "There's a car coming to our left," stated In a matter-of-fact way has prevented more accidents than all the exclamations and gasps combined. Hut to keep up a continual chatter on the topics of the day Is as dangerous danger-ous as It is unnecessary and frequently frequent-ly leads to a collision or an upset in the ditch. |
