Increased Comfort Promotes Driving Efficiency.
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TT is remarkable how soon improvements, -11-once effected, come to be appreciated as essential, whereas, before they came to pass, the wisdom. of their development was disputed. A case in point is the provision for the comfort of the driver of commercial motors. We have for years been insistent on the importance of that, and for years there has been a gradual hut steady improvement. Not the least Important of the advances was in connection with London's buses. On the latest type the comfort of the driver is comparable with that of the fiassengers, or of the driyer of an expensive touring car ; with what result? It has been found that the. standard. Of driving has considerably improved ; betterment has to be admitted where it seemed impossible. Thereason is just that the driver is less fatigued as the result of his hours of duty. He is comfortably seated, the control levers are convenient to his hand and the steering is easy, so that his nervous faculties are I called upon only for exercise in watching the traffic.
It needs actual experience of the tremendous strain involved in a day's bus driving through London's crowded streets fully to appreciate the improvement in the conditions. There is now only room • for regret that the improvements did not come earlier and the feeling that some effort should be made to discover If there be other possibilities of improvement which are, for the moment, being overlooked.