Hints On Driving

Right after you pass your test, you have a card that says you know how to drive. You might feel totally confident or you might feel a bit nervous, but while that card means you're a qualified driver, it doesn't mean you're a good one. This book is primarily for teens. It offers strategies for many situations encountered on the road. The book has been reviewed as "a good tool that can be used by young, novice drivers to handle different driving tasks." The writing is teen-friendly, lively, and visual. The book's purpose is to help drivers make smart decisions, and so to contribute to safe driving on our highways.

Excerpt from Hints on Driving But Fortune favoured me; and I drove His Majesty's Mail for nearly five years without an accident. I was then promoted to the "Quicksilver," Devonport Mail, the fastest at that time out of London. It must be admitted that I undertook this task under difficult circumstances - involving as it did, sixty miles a night - since many had tried it ineffectually, or at all events were unable to accomplish the duty satisfactorily. It is gratifying to me to reflect, that I drove this coach more than seven years without a single mishap. Getting at length rather tired of such incessant and monotonous nightly work, I applied for a change to my employer, the well-known and much-rcspcctcd Mr. Chaplin, who at that time had seventeen hundred horses employed in coaching. His reply was characteristic. "I cannot find you all day coaches," said he; "besides, who am I to get to drive your Mail?" I must say, I thought this rather severe at the time, but, good and kind-hearted man as he was, he did not forget me. Not long after this interview, the Brighton Day Mail being about to start, he made me the offer, to drive the whole distance and horse the coach a stage, with the option of driving it without horsing. Like most young men I was rather ambitious, and closed with the former conditions. The speculation, however, did not turn out a very profitable one, and, the railway making great progress, I sold my horses to Mr. Richard Cooper, who was to succeed me on the box. I was then offered the far-famed Exeter "Telegraph," one of the fastest and best-appointed coaches in England. My fondness for coaching still continuing, and not feeling disposed to settle to any business, I drove this coach from Exeter to llminster and back, a distance of sixty-six miles, early in the morning and late at night. After driving it three years, the railway opened to Bridgewater; this closed the career of the once-celebratcd "Telegraph." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Many of you would be wondering how to drive a car safely and efficiently. In fact. there are many who know how to drive a manual car but aren't comfortable behind the wheel of an automatic one. Even vice versa holds true. However, it must be noted that driving a car is a lot simpler than it looks. There are just some basic things you need to keep in mind before you get behind the wheel. This article here would help you with some tips on how to be a safe driver, along with telling you how to drive a car step by step, This book revealed the best-kept secret that could make the difference between a pupil passing their test the first time or failing it. How to find a good Driving Instructor and avoid the pitfalls and, the Cowboys! Learn to drive in twenty-four hours...to test standard.

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