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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TIGHT CORNERS
middle of the two objects is likely to minimize the
accident rather than if you hit one of them fairly full
and altogether cleared the other.
For example, a somewhat inexperienced driver, or
one who lost his (or her) head, might clear the wall on
the left by a foot, through the powers of vision not
being so capable of precise judgment on this side of the
car, only to catch the mudguard against the wheel
of the steamroller and also perhaps the axle cap.
This would, of course, swing the car round and pro-
bably dash it into, the wall.
More than one case somewhat similar to this has
come under the writer’s notice, where the driver has
absolutely ripped off mudguards and splintered the run-
ning boards both sides of the car yet come through
without any further damage. It must always be re-
membered that if an accident is, through any set of
circumstances, absolutely inevitable, it still remains
the duty of the driver to face that accident and reduce
its ill-effects to the minimum.
Remember, then, in all cases where it is a question
of a “ tight squeeze not to glance first at one side of
the car and then at the other, but go as close to the
object on the right as you possibly can, and then, if
there is in actual fact room to pass the other side will
look after itself and you will get through successfully.
If there is not room to pass no amount of looking from
side to side could possibly help you: it only makes
matters more difficult.
Steering Into an Obstruction to Miss It
There is one other little point which really quite fre-
quently proves useful to those drivers who know it,
and that is the apparent paradox of steering into an
obstruction in order to steer out of it. This again is a
situation which only crops up in tight, corners and is as
a rule only serviceable in saving a minor accident.
Sometimes it happens that one has for some reason
or other to make a sudden dive from behind the vehicle
just in front to pass it on the right but finds that there
is rot so mueh room on the right as one wishes in
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