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Show WOMEN DRIVERS MOSTREUABLE Safety Engineer Resorts to Science for Evidence to Support Idea. Logic, psychology and science have been commandeered to build up a stronger case ior tne woman motorist as a more reliable and safer driver than man. Coming to her defense this time ls Robert Clair, safety engineer and chairman of the taxicab and fleet owners' own-ers' section of the National Safety council. Clair discards as unfair the old arguments that were used to prove the superiority of woman as a driver and resorts to more scientific evidence for the defense. His case is built up on answers sent in by 100 representative men and the same number of women pleasure car drivers, besides verbal statements from 300 commercial car drivers. Asking Ask-ing them whether they believe the average av-erage woman driver is as careful aa the average man, he finds that 74 per cent of the men reply "No," while 84 per cent of the women shout back "Yes." On Woman's Side. Eut the word of these men and women wom-en isn't the deciding factor for woman's wom-an's defense. Clair goes to Dr. F. A. Moss, of the department of psychology at George Washington university, who set out to learn which of the sexes responded re-sponded more quickly to danger signals. sig-nals. The tests showed that the women students selected for the tests were as reliable as the men, "if not more so." And they were more consistent. "In concluding his tests," Clair reports, re-ports, "Doctor Moss stated there Is no physical reason why a woman may not drive as well as a man and that he has also found no psychological reason." But Clair sees the fallacy in exalting exalt-ing women drivers on the basis of accident and license statistics. Women Drive Less. "The average woman drives proportionately propor-tionately many fewer miles than the average man," he points out. "Thousands "Thou-sands of commercial vehicles roll up tremendous annual totals in mileage 20, 30, even 40,000 miles being common. com-mon. "Much of men's driving is necessarily neces-sarily at the hazardous hours of maximum max-imum traffic congestion, while women drive, as a rule, exclusively for pleasure, pleas-ure, for convenience or for shopping tours. "Thus not only does the woman spend many fewer hours behind the wheel than the average man, but her mileage figures are substantially lower." Nevertheless, Clair insists, science and a newer logic prove woman at least is as good a driver as man. |