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It is in the operation of a motor vehicle that the quality fthe users knowledge is shown. Operation is the practical ex perience, while all that leads up to it is theory good theory, it is to be hoped, but nevertheless of small value except as it becomes supplemented by the proper kind of practice. The first thing to be done in acquiring an understanding of a car is thoroughly to read up on the subject of motor vehicles, in this way gaining the valuable preliminary information that it is perfectly practicable to gain from text and illustration. For any specific application, the general instruction that is essential must be supplemented by a careful study of the special instruction supplied by the manufacturer of the particular car that is to be operated, following which the personal instruction of some competent person is by no means to be despised. A mong the very first things that it is essential for the novice to understand before venturing with a car on the common highway are the various, universally-recognized rules of the road. Every user of a public road owes it to himself as well as to others to observe rigidly all of the rules prescribed by law or established by usage for the guidance of road users. Observance of such rules avoids accidents as well as the giving of offence, which it is obvious would be vastly more frequent were there no such rules, or were the rules there not observed. When meeting another vehicle, coming from the opposite direction, it is the rule of the road in the United States, France, Germany, and I taly, for both vehicles to keep to the right, each turning to one side of the center of the road. If one of the vehicles is a horse vehicle, or is hervily laden, driven by a woman or child, or otherwise less capable of turning out, it is a matter of common courtesy, though not of law, that the other vehicle should permit it to retai
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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