Show I 4 fiVE SECONDS AS VARNI That Time Necessary Ex Ex- Excepting Excepting When There Is Congestion fly IL IT II V tS ItC Chief r Klaxon Co Ke Newark New Newark ark N J Fie Fhe that seconds seconds that Is tho dis distance tance In terms of ot Um time line thAt csar cry Automobile dryer Irh er should ren em remember hors horn automobile the tho for bee ber for should be bo sounded hounded fro seconds d distance from the tile person or tier tier- perSons per persons sons ons to bp hp warned Barned arnd In order to hf g-hf out ou t them cm time limo to get set ot of the nav av navIn av In case of i a motorist ln dri In Inthe Jr Inthe the congested business section of ofa of ofa ofa a city where whre trucks truc are arc olten otten cn- cn encountered en encountered countered rd It Is advisable to sound I t Ih born lorn 10 sec seconds before Ing Ina any gh glen ghen eon point of ot traffic con cong COIl COIl- con Ei 11 g During night the thc hor lorl ll should be bc hound bounded Id I'd frequently to tc ahead know ahem herp 11 Jet the dl h er sou are arc just t as he signals tau lou loun U signal Ignal rn n the nith Ith n hi his stop stoplight rear rc of Ills his automobile The main point 1 rash Ish Ish to make Is h that the a a eros e o motorist t toils tod Y does not sound his hia horn In timeto to warn nara pedestrians pedestrian and automo automo- automobile automobile bile blip driers rs e-rs and that ho he 18 as not a particularly good judge jud-e of distanced dis- dis lanced dis I as related to i 1 iThe The to two most inot Important ele- ele elements el ele elements ments In any discussion of the thes time to sound a horn born are proper s the rate of ot speed speed at which sound trA ls and the pie rate of speed nt at which the automobile is when t the e horn Is 15 sounded SounI Soun I trawls IrR at the tho rate rato ot of 1100 feet per second It Is necessary ry of course coure t to translate fh fio 0 seconds time limo Into terms of distance ance It Is apparent that when an automobile Is travel travel- travelIng travel travel-nc log Ing at the tho rate of ot 50 mile miles pe- pe hour or 73 feet a second that the automobile horn should be sounded l earlier than when the automobile is trawling raiding cling at the tho rate of 10 miles mUes i ai- ai or Ar H 11 feet a second a Take a speed of ot 15 miles an hour as the tho average for city driving driving ing At 15 IS mil miles milea an hour a car ar travels 22 23 feet a a second The Tho warning l should be ghen eh en at a ells ells- distance dis distance tan tance of 11 0 feet Tho next Important speed to re- re remember re remember member is 30 miles an hour hour-as hour asIt It Is at this or slightly silently higher speed that Inter city and cross cross- country traveling Is done At this speed the car travels 44 H feet per second cond Less than feet notice is not enough These di distances for tor tho the most common speeds can easily be re- re remembered re remembered It Is well wen of course It If the Iho can ss 18 the these theve o distances by the tho length leneth of city ty blocks block The a average crape city blocks runs from SOD to feet f t Th The horn warnings according to the figures I have given Shen should then bo be given when about third one-third of the tho block away to warn ved pedestrians s- s and ond motorists at the next ng ns street There 5 is no reason why hy the sounding of the horn the cite seconds second distance from any given ghen go en dangerous I point should not become a habIt The street t car motorman sounds his hla bell before coming to an tr- tr r b hu- hu be before street considerably fore tore he ho reaches that point Why not the motorist Instead of con con- contInually con continually slamming on his brakes when ahen hen ho he Is on top of ot the persons he wishes to warn warns 00 |