The Moral Vision
Reading the Signs
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READING THE SIGNS
With the increase of traffic in modern times, the
danger of accidents has also increased. To obviate
this danger, various forms of road signs have been
erected for the guidance of motorists. One such sign
reads: “Lane driving is safe driving.” Keeping to
one’s lane is an effective safeguard against
accidents, averting the danger of colliding with
other motor-cars, and ensuring that one’s journey
does not end in disaster.
An article in a British motoring magazine by an
expert on driving gives some indispensable rules of
thumb for drivers. If one is speeding down a main
road, for example, and suddenly a ball appears
from a side road, one must realize that there is
probably a child not far behind it. If one sees the
ball, but fails to see the child, one cannot count
oneself a good driver. The really good driver stops,
not on account of the ball, but on account of the
child that he sees with his mind’s eye running
behind the ball. It is the quickness of his
imagination which saves the child from being run
over.
