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Joyriding : a practical manual for learning the fundamentals of masterful driving, by Kenneth L. Zuber. Helios Institute, 1998.

This is a book about driving, intended for beginning drivers but useful to all drivers. The author frequently emphasizes the joy of, as the subtitle says, masterful driving, as opposed to just steering and hoping for the best. It is perhaps a message more likely to resonate with young people than just safety and law.

As you’d expect, the book is filled with drawings illustrating proper and improper driving. There are many photographs, most of them featuring rather exotic automobiles, which I suppose adds visual appeal to the book.

Joyriding contains the clearest explanation of proper parallel parking I’ve seen, something sure to be of use to people like me who grew up in suburbs and never got any practice at it.

Overall, an excellent book.