1926: Are You a Good Driver? — What Fans Were Reading Alongside Baseball

Simple Rules For Driving Shown To Be Best

“Good Driver” Is Not Necessarily the Fastest or Luckiest, But One Who Uses His Head

Are you a “good driver?” This doesn’t mean are you fast or lucky.

A “good driver” is one who uses his head, says Ed Friedman, automobile writer for The News and N. E. A.

The mediocre automobile driver must save the traffic situation in our large cities today.

The inferior and the perfect drivers are causing all the difficulties and are responsible for accidents and traffic tie-ups.

It is not difficult to understand how the inferior driver causes accidents to his own and other machines, but the “perfect” driver appears too perfect to be blamed.

The “Perfect” Driver

The “perfect” driver never gets into an accident himself. He never violates a traffic rule. He never gives vociferous traffic cops a chance to enjoy themselves at his expense.

The “perfect” driver careens down the street just to and not exceeding the maximum traffic speed limit. Pedestrians see him a block away, and even if they have the right-of-way they hesitate to cross the street, as the “perfect” driver speeds toward the crossing. However, he makes a “perfect” stop just to and not beyond the danger line, breaking no traffic laws but frightening pedestrians so that they fear to cross the street while they have a chance.

He’s Always Honking

The “perfect” driver turns around corners with amazing accuracy and disagreeableness. He winds in and out of traffic with a skill that drives other motorists frantic. He is always immediately behind some automobile, honking for them to speed up or get out of the way, and passing them at the most inopportune moment.

They Fear Him

The “perfect” driver is always right. He is so absolutely and recklessly right that other drivers and pedestrians fear him. He is the most disrupting element in the traffic situation.

It is the drivers who are not quite perfect and know it, who are mediocre and therefore careful, who keep traffic moving in a steady and orderly line.

Source: (1926, April 22) The Washington daily news. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82016181/1926-04-22/ed-1/.

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