31 MAY 1963, Page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

THE fifty m.p.h. speed limit is OK with me, although I am an ordinary impatient driver (the kind who keeps muttering 'move aside Grandad,' on weekend outings). I doubt whether this lower speed will make for better driving—as a passenger, I have been more relaxed at eighty with a genuinely expert driver than at thirty with 3 mediocre assassin like myself. But lower speed gives idiots more time to think and reduces the bang when it does come.