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Show DIFFERENT TYPES OF AUTO DRIVERS Each Individual Has His Own Ideas of Piloting Cars Through Streets. (By ERWIN GREER. President Greer College Col-lege o Automotive Engineering. Chicago.) There are as many different types of motorcar drivers as there are. human beings there must be since the mind operating the car is human. To point out each individual kind of a driver is certaintly to point directly at you In one or more cases. However, if it tends to make the reader see himself as that kind of a driver and to correct that fault before six feet of earth is plied on top of him, why the mission of this aricle is accomplished. A word about the chap who, when he want.s to turn right, has somehow always maneuvered to your right and must therefore cross over in front of your car. The same with the left turn. How easy it would be for every one else if he would think a little in advance ad-vance and get his machine into a position po-sition where, if he wished to turn left, . he would be in the same left stream of traffic. Driver With Dented Fenders. Then the driver with the bent and dented fenders and the battered or missing hub caps. II is special joy is to come as close to your carefully groomed car as possible witlicut actually actu-ally striking it. Often he miscalculates miscalcu-lates and your machine Is shocked Into a condition resembling his. You ty to collect damages and discover that he owes money on his car and that It already has been attached for damages by some one else. His brother can slip between a track and a street car with a diligeice and daring that is laudable. But one day the resulting wreck minces several law-abiding motorists. Or the boy who comes on at a sizzling siz-zling speed and then bang! on goes his brakes. The tires scrape, the car tenses and groans and the brakes shriek everyone expecting a crash. But, through the fine and lofty purpose pur-pose of the car's builder, things, somehow, some-how, hold together and the accident is averted that time. But one day this habit of his results In his being removed re-moved from the highway forever. Hates to Slow Down. Still another type"" approaches, gliding glid-ing at high Sliced in the grooves of the trolley rails. B"cause of his smooth approach he hates to slow down, and whiz over the crossing he swishes, grazing a street car, a track, several automobiles ard half-a-dozen pedestrians. Th'Ti he sticks his head out of the side and grins at the consternation con-sternation he has enus-d. This very same grin is on his face when, later, he is hurried to the morgue. vv'iy do ih;;y do it? |