3. THE TIME HAS COME.
'THERE ARE DRIVERS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE, DRIVERS WHO ARE IRRESPONSIBLE AND DRIVERS WHO ARE SIMPLY IGNORANT'.
The time has come assessing what makes the art of driving so fascinating. Without standards of what is good, bad or correct in art, finance, fashion, behaviour or in driving, civilisation is lost. In this context a driver can be a faceless, shoving, rude, in-different and un-interesting person yet whatsoever a person's back-ground, attitude or objectives, if any, all drivers have, somehow, passed the driving test.
How many parents take any interest in their children's education? Not many. While travelling in the family car every child should be studying the road ahead, learning the skills of judgement of speed and distance, road craft and perception. Similarly, by taking an interest in the journey, each child learns the geography of the land and places of interest. What must never, ever happen is a disgruntled, spoilt child sitting in the back seat absorbed in a 'play station'. That child will be a moron for his life to come.
People must understand that driving a vehicle is akin to holding a loaded pistol; both can kill. How many drivers adequately warm the engine of their car in the morning?
Always start every journey slowly, always.
Learning well at the beginning and improving throughout your driving life - should be the motto of every driver. Steering the car correctly probably you can not. One trick is, whilst travelling at a modest pace, imagine that your car is travelling in excess of 100 m.p.h. By precise 'pulling & pushing', in precision movements, 'feel' will quickly be understood. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This means 'straight line driving.'
The picture, on Page 28 of 1288, displays the good and the bad, comparing the 'duffer' from the expert.
'Bad driving is a disgrace when we consider the alternatives'.