Tests for Drivers The decision of the Minister of Transport
to institute a driving test for motorists will at any rate 'silence that Section of his critics who emphasize with superficial logic the folly of allowing any person, male or female to propel a highly dangerous vehicle at full speed on the roads of the country on the simple payment of 5s. for a licence. Actually there is.likelV to be little value in the proposed test. Few people are, in fact, foolish enough to start driving till they have become at least as pro- ficient as the test will make them, and it is notoriously not the novice but the experienced and careless driver who causes accidents. However, the Minister can claim that the test can do no harm and may do a certain amount of good, and that the 7s. 6d. fee which it is proposed to charge will pay for the services of the necessary examiners. That on the whole is sufficient justification for the new departure. Meanwhile the. British Association has satis- fied itself by experiment of the possibility of noiseless exhausts, and it is to be hoped that Mr.. Hore-Belisha will be as relentless towards this form of aural torture as he has been in the matter of the less offensive horn.
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