DRIVING FATIGUE

Shannon News, 2 November 1928, Page 4

DRIVING FATIGUE

SOME COMMON ERRORS. "Motor fatigue," results usually from an unnecessary expenditure of energy at Ihe wheel. Evidence has been gathered to substantiate the fact that drivers ' tire *themsel?es out through faulty operation of motor cars, Take'the case of curves, especially bir a strange highway. It is a driving error to approach a curve at a high rate of speed because in doing so the driver is forced to apply his brakes suddenly, ami at the same time put a great deal of strength into the steering of the car round the bend.. There may be 'many bends in file course" of a day's drive, and if the driver continues to approach them at a high rate of speed he will have used up a great deal of nervous anil physical energy at the end of a day. ' ; A coriuuovi error in driving is that of allowing--a-'car to run down a steep hill in hi.uii gear. This forces the driver to hold the car back with his brakes, an. operation requiring energy expended' needlessly. Apprqaching, at high speed any point where it is known in advance that a stop must bo made is another-driving blunder that Haves the driver exhausted at the end of the day. There" arc many little driving "tricks" which, if practised, will not only conserve the driver 'skenergy, but lengthen the life of the car as well.