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

HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR car, the writer—even in the face of the fact that he has failed to get much in the way of corroborative sympathy from certain expert drivers—nevertheless puts the idea forward as a scheme worth trying. A Golden Rule Finally, to conclude this chapter, on the general question of brakes, take to heart the following golden rule :— • Never, in any circumstances whatsoever, drive at a greater speed than that at which the car can be stopped with the use of one brake only, in the actual piece of clear road directly under observation. An example of the above rule—the case of the humpbacked bridge- If a bend in the road limits your vision of the road surface to 30 yds., your speed at no time under such conditions should be greater than that at which the car could be stopped with reasonable comfort in, say, 25 yds. If the reader will always make a practice of adhering to this rule he will not find himself suddenly encountered with a set of circumstances (which it may be ought not to exist) just round some bend, or just the other side of some humpbacked bridge, and he will go many and many a thousand miles without either a serious incident or an accident through travelling at too great a speed.