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Show SUGGEST YELLOW ' LIGHTS ON REAR Motorists Liable to Confuse Signals Sig-nals Along Roads to Indicate Indi-cate Danger. ENGINEERS APPROVE SCHEME It Will Take 8ome Time to Make Change as Laws In Many States Require Red Lamps Replacement Replace-ment Won't Be Costly. Automobile engineers are considering consider-ing the advisability of using yellow In place of red tall lights so as to minimize min-imize the danger of motorists confusing confus-ing lights placed along highways to indicate dangerous road conditions with automobile tall lights. Many accidents occur owing to motorists mo-torists being confused In this way. , The red light on the rear of the railroad rail-road trains Is probably the origin of the red tall light of automobiles. The railroad train operates on a track and the rear end of that train Is dangerous because a train following cannot turn out to avoid the preceding train. As automobiles do not operate on tracks, however, an automobile following another an-other can generally turn out and pass it It will thus be appreciated that the rear end of an automobile Is dangerous danger-ous only when It Is slowing down or standing at the roadside. The use of red lights In automatic or manually nnomteri ntnn slimals for the rear of automobiles is therefore logical. The members Of the passenger car and motor truck standardization committees com-mittees of the Society of Automotive Engineers, a national engineering society so-ciety of over 5,000 engineers and executives ex-ecutives of automobile and other automotive auto-motive manufacturers, have studied this proposed change and generally approve ap-prove of It. The fact, however, that the use of red lights is required by law in many states will mean tlmt the change to yellow tall lights cannot be made until the laws in these states are revised. 3t will, they point out, take some time to bring about any complete change from red to yellow tall lights, but once the wisdom of making such a change Is fully appreciated by motorists, motor-ists, legislators will see that the state highway lawa are revised to permit the change. The use of existing tall lamps will In no case be affected, as It will be possible to obtain yellow 3mp ls to rep'ac the red lamp glasses now In service, If such replacement re-placement Is wished by the Individual owners. The use of yellow as an automobile tall light will have an exact parallel In railway operation, Inasmuch as yel-. low is used by the railroads as a caution cau-tion light. This Is really what the tall light of an automobile Is intended to be, to caution the following muchlne that care must be exercised In overtaking over-taking and passing other automobiles. - |
