Show SPEEDING MEANS SPEEDING MEANS FEEDING MORE STOPPING Drivers Invariably Go Faster Thau rhan They Dr nr ERWIN Gm GREEn rn College oll of or Au u Automotive 0 Dud Trades Tho The car Sou ou are Ire driving d Is probably capable of or a speed or of front from sIxty to seventy miles nn an hour but but you OU cannot uso use this speed for any length of ot time without flirting with rho angels angels The modern highway while built lil e a speedway isn't way none a way one one proposition like the race raco track Therefore the tho driver who speeds must always make mako fre- fre freQuent fre frequent quent and nerve racking stol stops cut down his average time timeto timeto to a minimum His speed d 11 is far farbelow farbelow below that of or the tho driver who maintaIns a steady pace palo hour after hour What Wh t Is speeding Since Sinco It 11 Is the tho primary cause of ot a majority or of all nil automobile accidents Isn't It about limo timo that It Is plainly defined A great many motorists think that there Is something ally magic magic- magically ally safe sata about motorIng when wh-n Iho speedometer hugs close to 10 twenty miles an hour Yet speed speed- log inc speedIng can happen at any speed Ono One driver has lias discovered that much can be b learned about speed speed- ing speeding Ine by Iho driving of or the tho car with tho the speedometer disconnect disconnect- disconnected ed For or the test he ho Ie secured the services ot of o a a friend who WIO followed hint him over a l prescribed cours course In another car Tho rhe driver with the tho disconnected speedometer pro pro- proceeded pro proceeded Just as he would under normal conditions and then checked up with the tho actual speed record as noted by the friend following him The results were I surprising Invariably he h drove from five to 15 miles an hour faster than he thought ht he ho was going This was OS particularly abl notice notice- noticeable able ablo In traffic and In going coin down downhill downhill hill bill on the th open highway An Interesting thin thing thine happen happen- happened happened happened ed on ono one of or these tests The sudden appearance of or another car turning I In n from from Crom a crossroad call call- called called called ed for the quickest possible stop rho rhe driver without a Speedometer actually failed tailed to stop In timo to ol a avoid 1 a collision just because he thought 1 ho was as stopping quickly enough nough and never bother bother- bothered bothered ed lrI to reach for tor tho the emergency brake until ho he was too late The experiment showed plainly that the tho ernle a driver cannot guess his speed and speed and that he be invariably goes gOlS faster Caster than he Ie thinks It shows that a car driver lr Is speeding whenever tr Isis Ills of or a x safe sare stopping dis- dis dis distance tance tanco is Ics Ics-i than the tho actual stop stop- stopping stopping stop pins ping distance Putting two and two together this experiment showS that a driver who drives without a speedometer or who dOGS dods not watch hIs hi speedometer Is speeding speeding-at speed inc at any speed 11 PS |