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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST. 22, 1931.

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WHAT IS A DANGEROUS DRIVER?

[By Sir Malcolm Camphell.]

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The holder of the World's Land-speed Record discusses a vexed question. By arrangement with The Morris Juver),

WHEN SPEED

COUNTS.

A Minute Saved-A Life Saved.

THE CAR'S PART.

A minute saved, may menu a life ved. Doctors know this so well that they make heroic sacrifices- For some reason or other the inferior thoroughfare, and when ginner nud is in deadly fear of up when they are urgently needed, themselves in order to save time dangerous driver, in the public we consider that the greatest num-proaching too near to the edge of Time-saving methods are applied to mind, is still regarded as a definite ber of fatal accidents occur at cresa. the road where lurk milestones, tree humanitarian services no less that type of motorist, and there are still roads, one can only wonder at the trunks, and other perils that do not to manufacture and folk who imagine that he forms a stupidity of our law makers when the seasoned driver. Then Scientific progress is commerce. very important percentage among were responsible for such a serious there is the confirmed dawdler, who

omission.

is ever content to crawl along at formerly lost. about 18 to 20 m.p.l. on a cross-road road in the week-end traffle. Now busy

car owners,

responsible

Having

| many thousands of cases This, of course, is nonsense. In Closely allied to the

Aidin selence in this great work ellect, the percentage of dangerous fiend is the man who, from,the main} this man is a very dangerous driver, Bussett, managing director of diera is even lower than the per- traffle streams, turns into and on the Brighton road, for General Motora Export Company- the automobile, says A, F. centage of M.P.'s or Chief Con-road without warning.

instance, has probably caused more Someone is injured, and an auto- tables who did not possess Irish men's vatis, for some reason Sweep tickets.

are all in

Trades

Gr

other, are particularly addicted to ashes than all the lurid speed- {mobile ambulance is on the spot 111

were in the insurance

sien put together. this, expecially in London. If should steadily refuse to insure any horse vehicle for the simple reason business 1 He is more dangerous than the tradesmen's assistants who had that he is going just fast enough been involved in such Incidentally, many magistrates have traffic, and

a collision. to make passing diflicuit against the frequently be

can

ja moment. A gas jet la left open and an emergency eur. equipped

cene. with R pulmotor, speeds to the Power companies, street cars systems, and telephone plants maintain automobile emergency

there in the family doctor, whose car stands ready night and day to serve

the sick.

Just as every pedestrian is a dangerous walker at times all but missed being knocked down in Piccadily by a motor bus myself the other day--se, I am afraid, it must be confessed that we some slight degree dangerous divers very peculiar ideas on the subject, | responsible for a jam a quarter of fequipment. Last, but not least,

and well remember a case where a mile in length. on occasion. We allow our atten-a woman driver was fined heavily tion momentarily to relax from the | because she had

run into. business in hand; perhaps our which hud turned off a main road passenger speaks to us or we gaze into a right-hand turning, although at an old church as we pass it, on the driver failed to prove that he

buay Sunday afternoon when gave any warning! there is a great deal of other traße on the road.

Use the Driving Mirror.

car

To Sum Up.

This is, of course, a free country, and no one can legally take excep In the old days, when telephones tion to any car owner who wishes were few and decors depended to amble along at 15 to 20 m.ph, upon the horse and buggy. It took As matter of fact, 1 like doing a long time to answer a call and a it myself, at a somewhat higher patient could pass away before he speed than this; but I don't choose arrived. To-day an automobile the Brighton or Worthing roan at brings him instantly. Even the These Bre the real danger It is not sufficient serely to put the peak perind of the traille: Icharacter of professional service moments on the highway and are up one's hand; one should look in find a quiet by-road which still has changed, it i

cause of the rear mirror, or, if necessary. offers plenty of room for every specialists could far more frequently the

as formerly accidents than the headlong career turn round and definitely make body and pulse my contemplative only in the large cities. Now the be had of them wh blinds along at sure that there is nothing coming way in solitary happiness. 50 m.p.h. with every nerve strains behind, before the main traffic

specialist can. step into a car and ed in concentration noon the task stream is cross on any modern

answer a call anywhere.

According to the records of the in hand.

(busy highway.

In a nutshell, then, the dangerous mately 6,090 persons in the medical Buick Motor Company, approxi- For speed, a even county

The sins of the cutter-in are driver is the inconsiderate driver professions buy Buick cars. every magistrales are at last beginning to jobvious to all. 1 would, however, whether he is driving at In understand, never is and never was point out that cutting-in is pure-159 m.p.h. So let us all be on our

or year, in itself dangerous. If it hadn'tly a relative term: what may guard lest we expose ourselves to mitted by the Buick valve-in-head been for the Fidienious" Motor Carnot be cutting-in

with

a high the accusing finger of other read engine and the oil temperature re- Act of 1900. statute which, with powered

Sports Por is a very users, oven though nothing un- As puerile 20 m.ph. speed limit, Bifferent thing with

cklerly Titl

toward should come from our plator that warms the oil in cold revended the ginring incomputenre | touring

Cutting-in is from righteousness...

weather as well as cooling it in of a prejudiced crowd of horse-dungerous when the approaching

warm weather: the self-energizing awning invertebrates, the absurd ear has to slow down, if ever so

American motorists are

four-wheel brakes that stop the assolution of speed and danger slightly. When that happens the ing

operat-car quickly and gently. and its about 7.000.000 automobiles casy steering qualities, Buick is would never hieve

about, offending, driver has been guilty of which are six or more years old, the ideal car for a busy physiclan," France, with a more intelligent|ome of the worst erimes on the it is reported. highway legislation, has never had road.

Mr. Bassoit concludes. But merely because he the anti-speed complex.

Passes comparatively close that is. |within a molter of a few yards—; Speed, safety and braking power does not necessarily menn that he are all inevitably connected up tons been guilty of Culting-in. This gether, and I have no hesitation is an important distinction which saying that the man who never ex-is not always trailed. eeeds 25 m.p.hr but who is careless

Pomo

in the matter of his bruke adjust In connexion with cutting-in, we | ment is A for greater potential must not forget the man who does danger to rond users than the not like to be passed, a man who is driver who with a sports car in-funreservedly no of the most dulges in speed bursts of eighty or dangerous drivers on the road, for so, if that man's brakes are efficient | the simple reason that it is he who and in keeping with the speed leads others into trouble. powers of his ear.

old

There is a peculiar type of in- There is no need for me tu dwell dividual, usually with a very | upon the foolhardiness of the manicur in poor condition, who pursues who blinds over crossroads. In this his way serenely at about 25 m.ph. connexion, in mitigation on his until somebody hoots in the rear behalf, it must be pointed out that and prepares to get past him. those who were responsible for the Then for some unknown reason he Road Traffic Act, and failed to give | !s suddenly smitten with a desiru main road trafic a right of way, to go all out, which usually is a cannot be held guiltless in what is matter of 35 m.p.h. to the consider- a serious menace. In this country able inconvenience of the oncoming (and only in this country) the idiot driver, especially if it happens to who comes out of a side turning be un aslight bend. This insane on to a main road suddenly is not manoeuvre on the part of the man actually breaking the law. He who is about to be passed may easily might be prosecuted in a round-mean that the overtrking driver about way. for not exercising due has to drop behind, owing to the ehre and attention, bul ̈then

sexigencies of the traffic, when other

could the man on the main road.

Too Casual.

There are still a very large propor

tion of drivers who are altogether

wise he could have passed through with plenty of room to spare,

The Nervous Individual.

One stage removed la the nervous

too casual in the manner in which | driver who likes to hug the centre an of the road. He is usually a bes

they enter à main road from

"With the quick starting

THE EGOIST.

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