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Show MIRRORS HELP AUTO DRIVERS Form Preventative of Traffic Traf-fic Accidents in Many-Cases Mirrors on automobiles, showing the driver, at a glance, the condition of traffic immediately behind him, are among the best preventives of traf-flc traf-flc accidents In use today, according, to A A A. officials Mounted at tho left side of the windshield on the on. n car, or screwed to the frame of the i closed car In the same position, the mirror calls Immediate attention to a ' car opproachlng from the rear, and i often saves a collision, with resultant loss of both cars, It Is pointed out. j "The A. A. A. has always main-talned main-talned that every truck In the United j States should be equlppi-d with a mirror." said M. O Bldridge, execu- ! tlve chairman of the A. A. A., "and the addition of a mirror to the left-hand left-hand sld'- of the passenger automobile automo-bile would prove a large added factor fac-tor of safety. I "Tho A. A. A rule of tho road la that one vehicle approaching an-other an-other from tho rear and passing lu ihall pass to the left of the vehicle ahead, and this rnli gives the driver with a left-hand mirror a perfect view of the approaching motorist and enables en-ables him to give tho passing car Its share of the road. It docs not at-j at-j tract the attention of the driver from 'the road ahead, its a passing glance Is all that Is needed to show him traf-, traf-, flc conditions to the rear of his car. I "Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now require mirrors on trucks, the states being Vermont, ; Washington, California, Connects ut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Now York, Indiana. Kentucky, Maryland. Maine. Massachusetts. Michigan, Missouri, and New Jersey Nevada is now considering con-sidering such a law and the movement move-ment In spreading to other states. Passenger cars can benefit from this 'ample and their drivers can do much to increase their present margin of safety by affixing a small mirror to the left-hand side of the car." |