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

HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR will show a direct saving in upkeep and running costs, whereas a sound knowledge of the expert way of driving a car will lead to a diminution both of accidents and accidental incidents. In proof of the former statement, it may be mentioned that whereas a driver who has purchased, a Jones-Smith car finds that it costs him, say, 4d. a mile to run it for 5000 miles a year, another more capable and careful driver may do the same distance with a reduction of running costs of 25 per cent., or even 50 per cent. In proof of the latter field for improvement, one may cite the fact that the known expert driver is never, or, in the words of Gilbert, “ hardly ever ” concerned in an accident. Yet the expert driver frequently takes more risks than. the average driver ; but his greater knowledge and intuitive foresight enable him to guard against ordinary risks, and others which are largely unforeseeable, into which the less-experienced driver allows himself to drift. Conversation with most expert drivers will reveal the fact that they have been frequently in very tight cor- ners, but by doing precisely the right thing at the right fifth of a second—not at the right second—an accident has been avoided and only been memorized as an inci- dent. Such, then, is the objective with which we start our work. 9