PROPER DRIVING TUITION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 8

PROPER DRIVING TUITION

GOOD ROAD BEHAVIOUR. The advantages of being properly taught to drive a motor car are too great to be turned lightly aside. A thorough grounding in the early stages will stand to anyone in after years where haphazard instruction should only mean slipshod methods and uncertainty. It is an excellent thing to grow up from childhood with the car, but it is a far more excellent thing to study the job properly in a good school. Good teachers can be had for a fee. There are of course some good teachers who sell cars, but their chief object is to get rid of the car, not turn out a driver. The mere passing of a test doos not make a skilled operator. Too often the passing of the test is looked upon as proficiency or graduation; actually it would better be regarded merely as entrance—the infant stage. The day may come when accrediting from a recognised driving school will be the only means of obtaining a driving license or at any rate of being accepted for the test. In England there are now many driving schools, well equipped and employing patient, well-informed instructors, who can help the pupil to master the art of driving in very few lessons and give the necessary instruction in the highway code. Many drivers take their initial lessons from relatives and friends, and some may even be more or less self taught and then take a finishing course, but the speediest and best means to efficiency is to take expert tuition from the start. Habits formed wrongly in the early stages are exceedingly difficult to overcome and eliminate.

Not the least advantage of going to a commercial school to learn to drive is that a car is provided to learn on. There is no knocking about of one's new car. or even second-hand purchase, and no heart burning on the part of parents, relatives or friends whose property is borrowed or purloined for the purpose.