ROAD SIGNALS.
A STMPLE SYSTEM. With a view to redueiug the daugers of motor driving caused by misunderstandings between drivers when overtaking and passing, ihe Ndtional Roads and Motor ists' Association in Australia has adoptcd a simple system of sonnd signals, which, it is Jioped, will be adoptcd by motorists generally. A series of three short blasts with tlie horn, oorresponding to three dots in tlie Morse code, will indicate that the motorist in the rear desires the driver in front to slow up oi' stop, while a long and a short hlast will niean that the car overtaking desires to pass. It is believed that the general use of these two signals would remove many misunderstandings which occasionally lead to accidents or other trouble. Many motorists have at times overtaken other cars at uight and observed that their tail-lights
were extinguished, or that there wero other reasons which should he brought under the notice of the drivers, but au attempt to draw alongside has heeu takou as a ballenge to race. These misunderstaudings, it is lioped to abolish by means of the signalling system.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 6
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185ROAD SIGNALS. Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 6
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