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Show THE RIGHT-OF-WAY MQ HEADLIGHTS Washington, D. C, Oct 14 Right-of-way and glaring headlights are the two things which stand out ahead of everything else in the uniform traffic traf-fic problem, according to Chairman O. I. Yellott of the A. A. A. legislative board, which has taken up this largo subject in a determined effort to bring about a country-wide under-t under-t standing. Evidence that all of the states are interested in this plan of the organized organ-ized motorists is apparent in the letters let-ters being received by Chairman Yellott Yel-lott From Washington comes this comment by Secretary of State I. M. jHowell: "The American Automobile association associ-ation is certainly on the right track now, and if you. will compile something some-thing that can bo made uniform throughout the United States I know of no reason why it could not be passed in each one of the several states. Send us something and we will try and put it In the motor vehicle ve-hicle code at the next session of the Washington State legislature." From Maine, State Highway Commissioner Com-missioner P. J. Deering asserts that the Pino Tree State, particularly because be-cause of its large number of summer sum-mer road visitors, wants uniform regulations reg-ulations such as he expects will be proposed by the A. A. A. board. Incidentally, In-cidentally, Mr. Deering is president of the Maine Automobile association. President. H. Ellis of the Louisiana Louisi-ana Motor league admits that 'way down in New Orleans to which old city the persistent motorist is finding his way there is need of uniformity in the handling of traffic, while from many other sections of country the communications make clear that the time has arrived for comprehensive attention. To the recent meeting of the A. A. A. executive board came an invited committee from the Society of Automobile Auto-mobile Engineers, which has been at work for some time on the subject of glaring headlights. While the engineers have not come to a finality final-ity upon all the details, their spokesman spokes-man supplied information which would seem to assure a complete answer an-swer in the comparatively near future. fu-ture. In the matter of right-of-way, the consensus of the meeting was in favor fav-or of a plan which would provide that a vehicle give way on the right or on the left to an approaching vehicle, eliminating any north-south versus east-west regulation or giving through traffic on the main arteries the advantage. ad-vantage. In New Jersey and Maryland, Mary-land, the state law now Includes a right-of-way to vehicles approaching on the left, while in many states north-south traffic has precedence over that going In the other directions. direc-tions. Chairman Yellott is hopeful that he may be able to submit a report which will be available for the annual legislative leg-islative period in a large number of states. |
