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Show INLOnTED SPEED The tendency in the past few-years few-years has been to increase the top speed limit for automobiles. It is how recommended by some that no speed limit be placed on motors. It seems to be an established fact, according to State Motor Vehicle Ve-hicle Commissioner Eynon, of Pennsylvania, that speed limits are generally ineffective, and where top speed laws are in force the efforts of enforcement officers are directed toward violations of this nature rather than being concentrated concen-trated on recklessness and accident hazards. While under certain conditions con-ditions on straight highways some operators drive with perfect safety safe-ty at 50' or 60 miles an hour, speeds of 10 to 15 miles an hour are hazardous at points of danger, dan-ger, and it is at these latter points that enforcement is necessary. If this committee were to promote national agitation for elimination of the top speed limit it would place itself on record as favoring a forward movement. |