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

TRAINING THE EYE fullest possible consideration by the eye trained to the intuitive visualization of possibilities. A child sitting with a doll at the side of the road may look, from a distance of 50 yds., as secure from any sudden desire to cross the road as a milestone. One may even know for certain that the child has actually been made aware of the presence of the approach of the car by means of the horn, so that one would feel justified in assuming that it will not suddenly dash across the road, but will await the passage of the car. In most cases such assumptions are accurate, but, nevertheless, the trained eye should have constantly in front of it the possibility of a playmate’s sudden call, making the child dash heedlessly in front of the car. Never for one fraction of a second should the well- trained eye cease to have a specific knowledge of any movement of the child in question, although continu- ously keeping a keen look-out in front. The child should be a subservient part of the field of vision, but nevertheless a distinct entity therein, carefully under scrutiny until such moment as its power in any way to cause an accident is finally removed, owing to the in- ability of the child to get into the road before the car has actually passed the danger zone. 9