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

HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR often the means of securing safety, so refraining from blowing the horn in a case of emergency may be the best possible means of avoiding a potential accident. The Misuse of the Horn There is no doubt that many drivers abuse a powerful horn, and every now and then one sees correspondence or suggestions in papers to the effect that the legislature should prohibit the use of powerful warning devices on motorcars. Such a totally prohibitive proposition is a stupendous error, and shows in a most thorough manner that the proposers have but a very small knowledge of the sub- ject upon which they write and in all probability less practical road experience. Unless, however, motorists as a body will on their own accord set to work to weed out those who blatantly misuse such warning devices, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that legislation will be enacted to limit the use of such devices. In the writer’s opinion there is no greater safe- guard for the driver of a car, and also for the other road users concerned in most cases of emergency, than a 12-volt Klaxon or similarly powerful warn- ing device. The supreme value in cases of emergency of a fifth of a second has already been fully dealt with, and, one ventures to hope, cogently explained. Therefore, an instrument to participate in the safeguarding of life or property in such cases of emergency must be instan- taneous in action and of a fairly high tone, so as to convey its warning at the maximum speed possible and to the greatest distance. Times out of number situations crop up where children are concerned, or where a driver of a covered van makes a sudden turn to the wrong side of the road (without dreaming of any such simple precaution as indicating his intention), and in numerous other emergencies, where the warning note of a powerful hor» instantly saves the situation and paves the way to ,126