Tan looks with thinly veiled. contempt upon. the examinations.ne-corded prospective drivers.by his foreign colleagues of the International Settlement and the French Gonecession.
"See here," says he, Holding up tone of a pack of small- cardo, "Tell me how many red dots and how many green dots you can count on the fncco of the card.
Look—seven red ones, nine green ones. jy this simple test we have discovered that many drivers, coming here for Chinese licen after successfully, passing tests in the International Settlement, had been given foreign licences although they were colour blind. The foreign inspector never found out they couldn't tell the difference betwen the red and green traffic Tights!"
Tan turns to a table. There he deftly arranges a toy' street-car, severed automobiles and two images Chinese traffic policemen with jextonded batons. They are laid out upon a miniature street eross-the prospective driver is "automobile" and asked to "drive"
it from one point to an-} other. Other vehicles must be manguvred to their proper posi tions,, the. trafic, policemen must bbe 0 placed that they are giving proper signals, and. the _driver must _conduct his machine along the jfroper- route.
Some. Explanations "We try to tell each driver why, want him to conduct himself thus and 30," explains Tan. "We gay, You must let the streetcar go first. The streetcar carries 40.or-50. people; you have only tio or hhas..poor brakes, wound up.with a.handle; you have good Tirakes: which you: ean.use ensily."
But tne crowning achievement of Tan's administration will come in 8 fow weeks when a special ma-levine arrives from Germany. Seated in a dummy driver's seat! with all controls. before him,. the applicant will watch a motion picture screen and "drive" his machine through all manner of axises. Every touch of the. whee, elute, brake and throttle will fron. a, graph..At the end the: teat this graph can be compared with an ideal chart and Tan believes that the. applicant's. ability will, be shown with the utmost elatity and no room for argument.
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