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Show Powerful Natural Forces Work Against Your Safety In Auto Driving Blow your breath hard beneath two sheets of paper held in your fingers and you'll see a graphic demonstration of the powerful natural na-tural force that takes over part of the control of your car when you're overtaking and passing another an-other car. The sheets of paper don't blow apart, as you'd expect them to do. They pull together, instead. This is what tends to happen when you pass another car. Suction Suc-tion and vacuum set up by the speed, invisibly pulls your car toward to-ward the one you're passing. That's why you should be doubly alert and doubly careful while passing. But that isn't the only extra force that almost takes the wheel out of your hands. Speed itself is another. You've suddenly speeded up to pass, after a period of steady cruising. Instantly all steering characteristics change and so do known, make the act of overtaking and passing one of the most delicate deli-cate you can perform in your car one to be approached with great care. Proof? Last year, so say insurance insur-ance people, 26,000 were injured and 600 killed by wrong decisions while passing. Factors they could not cope with in time tripped them at the vital moment. One thing you can be sure of. Proper care of your car by the mechanic you know does the best work will make sure no mechanical failure will complicate the already tricky business of passing. That means a check of steering, rear-view rear-view and side-view mirrors, brakes and turn signals, acceleration and general safe operating condition. It's worth it, when you have to cope with outside forces as powerful power-ful as those that spring into action ac-tion when you drive your car. your safe reaction times, which shorten toward the danger point. Then the human factor the great unknown creeps in too. Is the man you're going to pass going to take it suddenly into his head to swerve to the right, without looking into his rear view mirror, or making a ' signal ? Is there a hidden side road around the curve, with a car about to pop out of it ? Is there a car coming in the opposite op-posite direction that may speed up and make it impossible for you to pass in time? All these factors, known and un- |