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Show ' I'M FORM DRIVING LAWS NEEDED. One of the greatest barriers to fair and efficient enforcement of traffic , laws is the lack of uniformity in the traffic codes of different states and towns. As one traffic authority recently po'nted out, when he drives from one J state to another, he doesn't have to stop and change his nickles, dimes and dollars into other and different kinds of money; but, if he wishes to : operate his car in accord with the ; law, he must at once revise his driv-: driv-: ing habits. He leaves a state where j the maximum speed allowed is 40 ;and then must remember that now he j must hold his car down to 30. He has been accustomed to traffic lights and signs placed on corners now they are overhead in the middle of the streets where he is liable to miss seeing see-ing them entirely. Suppose that motor car manufacturers manufac-turers pursued the same practices as 'many cities and states. Suppose a man who had been driving the Smith j ear wanted to trade it in for the new ' Jones model, and discovered that it had a different kind of transmission, required a different kind of fuel, and j presented major points of difference I in other respects. Such a policy would be no more absurd than is the exist-1 exist-1 ing policy of our governmental units in adopting traffic codes that are utterly at variance with those of a twon or state 10 miles away. The Uniform Vehicles Code and Model Municipal Ordinance, prepared by traffic experts, could and should be adopted by every town and city. This would not only give the motorist motor-ist a break it would immensely expedite ex-pedite the efficiency of our police and traff'c patrol departments, and make an important contribution to the cause of highway safety. |