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

DRIVING BY NIGHT suddenly come upon, a recently-watered road, where the braking efficiency will be notably less; consequently it is necessary to bear the fact in mind and make allowances for it. Conversely, of course, if one has a steel-studded non-skid and has been driving for a long time on wet roads and then suddenly strikes a part of the town where, perchance, the rain has not fallen, similar circumstances arise again. How to Attain an Observant Eye It must not be thought that all these various duties for the eye are being put down as a set of rules which the driver might have in front of him on the dash. No ; they are formulated so that he may gradually train him- self, little by little, to the accomplishment of all the various precautions set out., in an entirely automatic manner and without the slightest personal effort. As an analogy, one may point to the every-day bicycle, which in the early stages is a difficult machine accu- rately to balance and control, though when once the art has been acquired it is done entirely automatically and without the slightest conscious effort. In exactly the same manner, with judicious training, the driver can gradually train himself to accomplish all these various functions detailed to the eye and to do them quite automatically and without giving the matter any specified consideration. Obviously the suggestions put forward could be enlarged still,further, as, for instance, when passing through wooded country in a stem or heavy wind, an outlook is invariably kept by the writer for the possibility of a tree being blown down across the road. Admittedly, that verges on super-refine- ment. Tn the foregoing matter, however, the chief de- siderata have been enunciated, and only those matters alluded to which the motorist who wishes to be a good driver should gradually acquire. They really make all the difference between careless and safe driving. \J Night Driving The whole of the foregoing remarks are at least equally applicable to night driving, if not even more so, and although when driving in the day time on 15