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340 totally unnecessary, and caused considerable annoyance to everyone else on the road.

Probably the chief offenders in this respect are the paid mécaniciens or drivers for companies or private owners. Having no responsibility, no care, no consequences to face—beyond the possible loss of the weekly wage—infinite damage can be done by a man of this type dashing through villages and crowded thoroughfares. Therefore impress the fact on your mechanic that your car is to be driven as considerately when you are off as when you are on it, and if your instructions are not carried out, cure the complaint by dismissing the man

Grievances in regard to the speed of motor-cars would have had no ground if every driver took upon himself the obligation of gentlemanly conduct on the road, acknowledging that the highway is public and that a large number of other persons have equal rights to its use. Therefore slacken your speed in any and every place where you think that some other user of the highway may be inconvenienced by your passage.