24 MAY 1902, Page 3

The result of this is that a carriage and pair,

which cannot be stopped when it is going fast on a sudden emergency except with the greatest difficulty, may legally be driven on an empty road at a pace of thirteen or fourteen miles an hour; while a motor-car, which can be stopped almost dead in an emergency even while going at twenty or twenty-five miles an hour, must never proceed at more than twelve miles an hour. In other words, the unmanageable motor, the horse, is unrestrained, while the manageable motor, the petrol or steam engine, is weighted down with restrictions. We venture to assert that thirty years hence people will find it incredible that we regarded the horse-propelled as safer than the mechanically propelled vehicle.