This little book is an excellent background course for emergency and high speed driving - focused from work for Texas policemen and emergency vehicle drivers that actually has saved many accidents and many lives.
John Clark was for many years V.P or Research for Southwest Research, the big automotive research organization in San Antonio. Texas found that it had an alarming rate of deaths and accidents in high speed driving, and asked that it be studied. John, an excellent engineer with race experience, did studies and set up a course with this book as the basic description of it. Accidents and fatalities for people who took the course went way down - operational speeds went up.
Most people don't know how to operate a car, truck or ambulance anywhere near its limit-of-adhesion capabilities - and much of what has to be learned isn't intuitive. Clark explains what has to be learned, and how to learn it, clearly, and with a minimum of words and engineering jargon.
Most nonprofessional drivers, and some professional ones, could benefit from this little, clear book.
the ideas are not outdated...physics works the same way it did when the book was written in 1976
