"Blind recklessness" is a most expressive phrase; it means all the words indicate, and is contra-distinguished from open-eyed or wise recklessness.
The timid man is never reckless, the wise man frequently is, the fool always; the recklessness of the last is blind; if he gets through all right he is lucky.
It is reckless to race sixty miles an hour over a highway; but the man who does it with his eyes wide open, with a perfect appreciation of all the dangers, is, in reality, less reckless than the man who blindly runs his machine, hit or miss, along the road at thirty miles an hour,--the latter leaves havoc in his train.
One must have a cool, quick, and accurate appreciation of the margin of safety under all circumstances; it is the utilization of this entire margin--to the very verge--that yields the largest results in the way of rapid progress.
Every situation presents its own problem,--a problem largely mechanical,--a matter of power, speed, and obstructions; the chauffeur will win out whose perception of the conditions affecting these several factors is quickest and clearest.
One man will go down a hill, or make a safe turn at a high rate of speed, where another will land in the ditch, simply because the former overlooks nothing, while the latter does.

It is not so much a matter of experience as of natural bent and adaptability.

Some men can drive machines with very little experience and no instructions; others cannot, however long they try and however much they are told.
Accidents on the road are due to Defects in the road, Defects in the machine, or Defects in the driver.
American roads are bad, but not so bad that they can, with justice, be held responsible for many of the troubles attributed to them.
The roads are as they are, a practically constant,--and, for some time to come,--an unchangeable quantity.

The roads are like the hills and the mountains, obstacles which must be overcome, and machines must be constructed to overcome them.
Complaints against American roads by American manufacturers of automobiles are as irrelevant to the issue as would be complaints on the part of traction-engine builders or wagon makers.

Any man who makes vehicles for a given country must make them to go under the conditions--good, bad, or indifferent--which prevail in that country.