WIRELESS IN CARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 90, 26 January 1934, Page 3

WIRELESS IN CARS.

- REMBT FOR CONFERENCE. "NOT CONDUCIVE TO SAFETY." (Special to the "Guardian.") TIMARU, January 25. The South. Canterbury, Automobile Association this evening decided to send the following remit to the conference of the Soutli Island Motoi Union in Nelson: ''That in the opinion of this conference the use of wireless sets in motoi vehicles in motion is not conducive to safety first, and that steps be tako:> to prevent such a practice becoming a source of potention danger. The president, Mr J. M. Jenkins, referred to the increasing practice of installing wireless sets in cars, stating that from his own observations Jie had concluded that the practice was not in the best interests of a safety first campaign. It. needed little imagination to visualise the confusion arising on the arrival of five cars with wireless sets going at an intersection at the same time. The warning devices would be worse than useless and Iha drivers' attention would bo anywhere but on the traffic. He had been Informed that at Home it was an offence to have a wireless set which was audible outside the car in which it was installed. Members concurred with the chairman and it was decided to forward the remit to the conference.