SPARE THE HORN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 368, 1 November 1932, Page 2

SPARE THE HORN

111 It* %■*'. » 3 4 ? it 5* 0 W» I i* » « * '■■■ * MORE DISCRIMIN ATION ADYISABLE IN USE. POSSIBILITY. OF FRIGHT. -In-Rome and Florence' horn-soupd-ing-is forbidden'betWeen' midnight'apd 6 a.m., but a 'more drastic suggestion has Been' made by a correspondent in a letter 'to' a'London daily pabeh: !i He holds that the One way of teaching' carefulnessy to ' all, drivers' and pedestrians alike, is. to abolish' 'entirely the use of ' the horh. He state's- - that every one froih' the .wor'st road hog to the-. most- •jhoffensive- old lady driver, depends to a certain, and no doubfc varying degree, on horn-sounding. " "The Motor, in an editorial,;agrees that far too many modern drivers use their hooters much more often than j they need do, but is is far too drastic to suggest the ' entire abolition of the horn. Drivers ' of Tong experi'ence know that the hooter should he used as little as possible" as :a-warning- to pedestrians, for a sudden blast may in too many cases alarm rather than warn, and every driver knows that ' hesitatioh often creates afe embarrasj sirig a situation as a sudden- dive. In driving nothing requires such fine j discrimination1 as horn-soundingj and I we recommend any motorist "vyho is ; prone to frequ'ent use of the warning j ihstrument to practise driving with as i little use as possible of the born.| If ; he is a safe driver, he will find that i he can confine its use to very few oci easioris:as a warning df 'his'- pfesen'ce j at blind turnings: -Now that rear reflecting- mirrors -are in- general-use it is not necessary to use the - hooter -so often when desiring to pass other vhhicles.