Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-22 | Page 17 | No Wonder So Many Drivers of Little Autos Get Pinched

No Wonder So Many Drivers of Little Autos Get Pinched Psychology Students Learn Wee Cars Seem to Tr Travel v lt Faster i From the result s of ot experiments conI conducted conducted con con- ducted b by I ie le psychological department I o of an Io 10 a a. university it appears that I the aVE average ge person is prone to overestimate over over- estimate te the speed of ot a small noisy motor car and underestimate that of of a large smooth running one About students were recently as assembled assembled assembled as- as at a point past which machines of ot different sizes and conditions were driven at known speeds As a a. vehicle passed each person recorded on paper his personal estimate o of its mileage per I hour i Twenty-three Twenty trips were made with I the cars and from a study of th the subsequent subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent tabulations it was found that when a driver continually sounded a ahorn ahorn ahorn horn in passing the students considered considered considered consid consid- ered the speed to be miles an hour greater than It really was The discrepancy was double this when the rate of ot a rattling machine was considered Of two cars traveling at equal pace the smaller was Invariably invariably ably estimated to travel faster than th the other It is rather interesting too too that young men and women who had never driven a car made on the whole as nearly accurate estimates as did those of greater experience Close guesses of actual actual speeds were made when cars Jaunted along at ten tenor tenor tenor or twelve miles an hour but when raced at fifty or sixty miles the guesses were extremely wild