How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring

HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR when travelling at a speed too great to take it by ordinary steering methods without a distinct risk of either overturning the car or slithering into the bank. A large number of accidents, however, have been caused through this bad driving, generally at night where the road suddenly appears to end abruptly, and a sharp comer or quick bend is encountered. As before stated, such a situation should never be encountered unwittingly, as it is nothing but rank bad driving so to do, and such turns should.only be met with intentionally in racing. However, if such a situation does confront one, and it is seen that to take the comer merely by steering round it is going to overturn the car or slither it into the near side of the road, then, instead of taking the corner by steering round it, one can do it with perfect success by skidding it in the following manner: In the first place, there will, of course, even in the most flagrant case of bad driving, be a second or two tc spare between the time when the driver is suddenly aware of the fact that he has to negotiate a corner at greater speed than he is able, and the time when he has actually to do so. This time should be employed in brake application and with deceleration of the engine, 116