CLEAR VISION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 302, 16 August 1932, Page 2

CLEAR VISION

ESSENTIAL FOR DRIYERS. "This is the time of year more than any other when motorists should take every precaution in ensuring that their ability to see everything to the side or in front of them on the road is not impaired," says the Canterbury Automohile Association in a recent safety message to all drivers of vehicles. "This injunction applies particularly to drivers of the closed type of car and the drivers of open cars which some owners, by side curtains, try to convert into closed cars in wet weather. Drivers should try to avoid that mist effect on the insides of windows and windscreen due to lack of proper vsntilation. It is highly dangerous to allow the windows to became frosted, as it were, hy reason of the interioi 'warmth, as proper vision to left or right, so necessary at intersections, is quite impossible; and, if this frostiug oceurs even to a minor degree on the windscreen, there is grave danger of running down cyclists 01* pedestrians. If drivers take th'e trouble to do it, they can so arrange the ventilation that no draughts need be created. At the same time, they preserve that clear windo'w outlook so essential to safe motoring. It is perhap'3 too mubh to ask all motorists to install double windscreen wipers so that there is no blind spot on the left-hand side, but it is not unreasonabel to reqUest all motorists to make closed Car motoring healthier and safer by making all windows and windscreens serve their obvious purpose."