How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring
År: 1915
Forlag: Temple Press Ltd.
Sted: London
Udgave: 2
Sider: 138
UDK: 629.113 How
Written and illustrated by the Staff of "The Motor"
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CHAPTER XIV
The Use and Misuse of the Horn
IT seems almost to verge on the superfluous to devote
words to so apparently simple a matter as that of
blowing the horn. Nevertheless, it is a subject
for which the writer will proffer no further
apology. The use of a horn need only be referred to
from the point of view of considering the possibility of
situations arising, when it is safer not to give a warning
signal, both in one’s own interest and in that of the
other parties to the situation. It would be unwise to
endeavour in any way to lay down definite situations,
when the well-being and safety of all concerned is
better guarded by not using the horn than by employing
it. Nothing but experience can teach this. It may be
taken, however, as an undeniable fact that in many
cases such action is in point of faet the corree
procedure.
One frequently sees the magistrate’s court query in
the case of an accident, “ Did he blow his horn. e
value of evidence to this effect depends wholly an
entirely upon the circumstances obtaining.
In many situations it is no exaggeration to say
that an accident may absolutely be caused
through no other action whatsoever on the par o
the driver than that of blowing his horn.
Really experienced drivers will quite appreciate the
situations which do occasionally occur when this state
of affairs is neither more nor less than the absolute
We will try to give one example for the benefit, of
those who may not of their own account be able to
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