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

STEERING POINTS tramcar the steering should be quickly reversed so as to make the direction of the car a dive for the front por- tion of the tramcar and give a sharp but decided “ dab ” to the pedal brake. This will have the effect of bodily swinging the rear of the car out anything from a few inches to a couple of feet, or even a yard, according to road conditions and weight, or lack of weight, at the back of the car, the tyres in use, etc. The manœuvre sounds a difficult one, and admittedly it is not a novice’s feat, but at the same time it is a perfectly sound piece of driving, not, of course, to be used for the benefit of arousing people, but to be resorted to in cases where circumstances, over which perhaps one has absolutely no control, have rendered the choice of such a manœuvre or an accident inevitable. Steering Points in Epitome Summarizing then, as a general rule give vehicles which you are overtaking reasonable room, and allow cyclists, especially lady cyclists, and more especially if the road is greasy, plenty of room. So far as passing ears going in the opposite direction, reasonableness is here again the keynote of instructions. It is to be feared that many drivers are in the habit of hugging the middle of the road and leaving the other on© to go into the gutter. This is bad driving, and the writer must confess that in such cases he does likewise, generally to the final disconcerting of the other driver, who usually makes somewhat of a wild swing away to his proper side of the road at the last moment. Such, however, should not be the case, and both should take to the side of the road so far as may be necessary to leave, say, a yard between the two cars. It is ungentlemanly behaviour and bad driving to force the other man into the gutter, or to cut him too close. Those who are tempted to adopt this bad type of driving (it is to be assumed that they have unknowingly got into the habit of it because respectable folk should always share the necessary “ giving way ”) may find every now and then someone who is more at home with an inch to spare between the two cars than they are, and 59