MOTOR-CAR RADIO SETS
FEAR THAT ACCIDENTS MAY BE CAUSED [THE PKESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, October 5. A fear that motor-car radio sets might lead to traffic accidents if they were operated by the drivers was expressed by the city council's chief traffic inspector, Mr G. R. Hogan, in a report to the council. Mr Hogan stated that on latest models of American motor-cars provision is made for the installation of a radio set, the tuning-in apparatus being fitted either to the steering wheel or the dash-board. There was an element of danger in the apparatus being attached to either the steering wheel or the dash-board When the vehicle is in motion, as the driver might be tuning in and not directing his attention to road requirements. As a safeguard, he recommended that the attention of the Minister for Transport be directed to the necessity of requiring all such installations to be operated from the back seat of motor-cars. From enquiries it would appear that this alteration would in no way increase the cost of the installation, and it would certainly prove a safeguard. It was decided to forward a copy of the report to the Commissioner of Transport,
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20979, 6 October 1933, Page 10
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