EMERGENCY

Shannon News, 24 May 1929, Page 4

EMERGENCY

It would not be so necessary to I troducc laws' to govern the speed cars if only drivers would really un stand the mechanism of their cars, is not-always the speed at which car is travelling that constitutes danger, but the inability cm the pari the driver to act promptly-in an em enev. An engineer ' has to pass exhaustive tests before he is allowed control machinery of . any kind.

the average owner-driver after mas ing a few elementary facts govern the car, casts aside the instruct book and takes to the road ignoil of the capabilities of the machine is driving. This, of course, is not j of every driver, but it may be sugd ed that a large majority of the drij of the present day are not capable taking down and ‘reassembling an gine, nor do they fully understand principles of many of the niceties driving, such as a double dcclutehini intentiono] skidding in order to at an accident. It is the little scrapd knowledge one requires while exp menting and tinkering that count a crisis. They help, to bring abou complete understanding between driver and his car.