Show I When Cars Cant Can't Take Tahe It One out of every six fatal accidents Involves an automobile with some kind of of a a. mechanical defect according tolate to tolate tolate late reports of the record makers Moreover More More- over the proportion of defective cars has been steadily increasing since l 1041 41 when it was only one In 12 or 13 On the face of It this kind kird of news Is both discouraging and alarming While we are In the midst of an out all-out offensive offen oUen- awe sive against the fearful economic waste Waite and personal tragedy of street and highway highway high high- way accidents millions of automobiles limping along the roads are menaces to ills lite and limb regardless of whether their drivers ar are competent or not With aUthe nil all the driving skill in the world and every faithful observance of rules of the road a e. motorist is ill helpless when his steering what brakes or some other vital part of his car falls fall him In an cmel n H HP Hr I I Is helpless and so are the pedestrians and other drivers in his path The hopeful tide side of the picture is that here we have to deal with mechanical mech mech- meek meek-I I anical failure alone something alone something far less elusive o than human failure It becomes human failure too only when the re- re I for proper car maintenance is left up to individual motorists and I then neglected by them To be on op the i I safe side that responsibility should be made a n part of law I If high standards of motor vehicle I performance were required by statute and enforced by periodic inspections In I every state of the Union lives might be saved in a a. single year j Motorists owe It to their futures their families and their men fellowmen to become become safe drivers They owe it to their cars carll carsto carsto to keep them fit For even the safest I driver id is no safer than his car I I |