Definition of "motorist"

Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.

1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 13