| Show THE IAN IVIAN- NOT MAN NOT HIS CAR AR I According to a brief article in inThe ini I The Safe Driver a publication of the National Safety Council about 90 per cent of all motor vehicle vehicle accidents can be charged to three things Bad judgment carelessness and In a recent study of over a mi million lion coo mo- motor mo motor tor accidents it was found that the entire share of fatal accidents attributable to defects in the car amounted to only about 11 per percent percent percent cent while for non-fatal non accidents the car was defective in but 5 per percent percent percent cent of the cases In other words 9 accidents out of 10 are the fault of the man who drives the car and not the car itself As Dr Miller Iiller McClintock of Harvard has phrased it the remedy is to convince man roan that he must live up to his car When he reaches as high a degree of perfection in his driving as the modern automobile deaths on streets and ana highways will be due for a 90 per cent drop The modern highway is often congested Traffic moves fast There is no time for mind absent absentmindedness absentmindedness absentmindedness edness for a single singe instant of dis- dis distraction dis distraction distraction traction from the job at hand Everyone who drives an auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile Bad judgment careless careless- carelessness carelessness carelessness ness stupidity |
