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Since Europeans came to affluence later than Americans, most of them first got behind the wheel at a later age. In ten years, the number of autos in England has doubled, and in Germany the car census has grown from 500,000 in 1950 to more than 7,000,000 now. Driving schools are crowded with middle-aged learners. The tests are usually elaborate, but they tend to be more intellectual than practical. The standard French examination, for instance, does not necessarily ensure that a candidate knows how to make a turn from the proper lane, but it sternly requires...
...French driver is always learning. Once he thinks he has grasped the rudiments, his hands unfreeze from the wheel enough for him to gesticulate and shout freely. Then he learns how to wind up his little car to its top 60 or 70 m.p.h. and hold it there, come what may. He advances to understanding the subtleties of the basic traffic law of priorité à droite, which means yielding to the car on the right only if there is no way of bluffing through. Then come more refined arts, such as passing on the crest of a hill...
...RUBBER has a Ferris wheel ride inside a six-story-tall rubber tire. There are bucket seats and a view from the top. Only three times around, though, and then you get parked...
...then in the final race of the preliminary series, Constellation's helms man Eric Ridder was replaced at the wheel by Bob Bavier, 46, advertising manager for Yachting Magazine and long known as one of the East Coast's hottest sailors. All of a sudden the crew seemed to come together, and the big white boat started to move. Constellation had a 100-yd. lead on Eagle before fog rolled in to cancel the race. Bavier was back at the helm when the sloops met again in the New York Yacht Club cruise races, which do not count...
...while it is stopped at a traffic light. "In the past I haven't felt the necessity of locking the doors," he says, "and I doubt that I'm going to change my ways in the future. Another thing they recommend is that you hold the steering wheel at 'ten and two o'clock'. Well, the spokes on my Rambler's wheel are at 'four and eight o'clock', and it's going to be hard not to catch them right there-for normal driving, at least...