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Show Price, Utah 2 Thursday, May 22, 1969 Education, sound cars and roads in reducing accident rate Help r With driver educ. cuts N N NN.. father of driver education in the Amos E. Neyhart, for more nation. than 35 years a tireless ambassaFor it was in 1933 that Neyhart, dor for traffic safety, likens his equipping his 1929 Graham Paige d field to a stool. with dual controls and footing You take a properly educated the bills himself, taught the first d driver education course in the driver, give him a vehicle and then design a mod- country. ern highway that can handle the There were 34 State College traffic and youll see a terrific School pupils in that class. High reduction in the accident rate, the estimate is that almost Today Jays the director emeritus of the 15 million students have learned institute of Public Safety at The to drive from courses modeled Pennsylvania State University. after Neyharts original edition of Eliminate one of these factors 36 years ago. gnd youre in trouble. Its like a At last count, 13,311 of the nastool, knock a leg tions 17,954 high schools or 74 but and the stool will fall. per cent offer approved courses For all his considerable achieve- in driver training. By the same ments in his chosen profession, token, latest statistics also show Neyhart is best renowned as the that 56 per cent of the nations three-legge- -- three-legge- d pupil population 1,725,380 With these new superhighways, everyone should know shortcomings. how to decelerate a vehicle from Jail Sentence Needed he theorthe legal speed limit, Why don't we teach people izes. how to drink and drive? he askAnd finally, he advocates the ed recently. We know theyre not construction of community drivgoing to stop drinking so why simulated obstacle ing areas dont we teach em that it takes courses to give drivers experience the physical system l'J hours to in an automobile when handling throw off a jigger of whiskey? they go into a skid; when their tion, lie still acknowledges of students are enrolled driver education programs. in How did the whole thing come about? same thing applied to driving. If we were going to make traffic safety work, we had to work with the individual. The Right Way, Weve been teaching He says: to start, manipulative skills; how turns. We make back up, steer, have not been teaching accident skills. This is a criti- good is geometry chemistry to a young boy v gets killed on the highway?" Driver education is ni asks. merely a preparation for life prevention I accept. its a way to stay alive. cism of the program What Come out to Airport Service First test track Built in 1915 AMOS E. NEYHART Father of Driver Education best time for that? Just as theyre old enough to and that meant high TTY and Proving grounds were introduced by the industry in 1924. But what probably was the first test track designed specifically to test and evaluate production vehicles was built by a Detroit auto maker back in 1915. A e track a circled planked hill more than 40 feet high, which cars had to climb prior to leaving the factory. Cars were also required to plow through a sand pit and travel around the track at all speeds before being approved for shipment. Before the track was built, vehicles were tested on nearby city streets. We had to get em before they bad habits. And when learned was the as soon drive, O O half-mil- school. Today, at an age (69) when most men would be thinking of a relaxing afternoon on the front porch, Neyhart is almost, if not quite as active. I just can t sit . back when a lot of work to be done and potentially a lot of lives to be saved, he said at the time of his retirement. theres PEOPLE VACATION-MINDE- D Personal Stake But from my years in industry, I learned that you made no headway with your safety programs until you convinced the employee that he had a personal stake in accident prevention. off the Wc havent gotten info U,;s tires blow; when they run brakes give I wynt be satisfied until w , shoulder; when their T$ Neyhart, there is only things roadway, out on a windy way for a youngster to learn hi like that. to drive and thats the right n Only Way For the incorrigibles, theres only one way to handle them with a stiff jail sentence and a high fine. Another area which has been left unexplored, Neyhart says, is teaching people to drive at high said Neyhart as he Wall, sipped a cup of coffee in the campus offices of the institute, Im an industrial engineer by profession. A sonic speeds. ATLAS PLYCR0N WIDE OVALS ATLAS HIGH PERFORMANCE ATLAS Halt cries an3 Accessories newly-assemble- d Drivers under 25 years of age Looking back, while Neyhart is h of Amimpressed with the variety of account for only sophisticated aids and machinery ericas drivers, but were involved to be utilized through the years in of all fatal highway in the teaching of safety educa crashes in 1968. East Price Call SERVICE 637-983- 0 one-fift- one-thir- d te Even in the early days of driver training, students were taught basic mechanics of a car. Driver training founder Amos E. Neyhart explained workings to his 1933 State College High School class- Today, driver training is offered at more than 13,000 high schools. Participating in approved classes are 1,723,380 students. Since 1933, 15 million have attended driver education courses. ' TOP QUALITY PRODUCTS AND SERVICE ... a missed appointHoms in your ears a pounding head ment ride a and a lot of other things to spoil your driving. 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