Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 39 | Horn Signals to Indicate Direction

HORN SIGNALS TO INDICATE DIRECTION Accessory Manager States His Idea of a Simple and Effective Formula. Observers of conditions on heavy-traffic heavy-traffic streets believe that the auto born should be made an instrument whereby pedestrians and fellow motorists mo-torists would be warned by means of a eer"iia number of blasts as to the di-reL't; di-reL't; in which an automobile is intending in-tending to go upon reaching an inter- section. li is contended that if a specified number of blasts serve to indicate the direction to be taken bv vessels cn a body of water, then a regulated number of toots" from an auto horn would scire to indicate whether the driver had the intention of keeping straight ahead or whether he was desirous of turning to the right or left. The manager of the Salt Lake Hardware Hard-ware company's automobile accessorv ciep?Ttmer.t. an authority on traffic conditions, says: When it is the purpose of the driver to continue straight ahead, one long blast of the horn might so indicate. If ir is intended to turn a corner either to the right or left,(a number of thort i b'asts might be made obligators-. A I ieehiig of confidence would be engon-! engon-! dtfred between the peiestrian and the I moror car driver. The su-;:est;on has further been ma ie tnat this method of signalling be universal and that it be made a"law in the city ordinances or state oles.