New Alarm System For Taxis
BONN. Munich taxi drivers are fitting their cabs with a new alarm system invented by a Munich engineer to issue an alarm if they are attacked. Experience has shown that attacks on taxi drivers usually take place towards the end of the journey or when the driver collects his fare.
The alarm system consists of a small black box connected to the car’s engine. Just before the journey ends the taxi driver switches on the alarm box, if he suspects an attack. If he is not attacked he can switch off before it sounds the alarm, but if it is not switched off by a switch, whose whereabouts are known only to the driver, 90 seconds after being switched on the box causes the horn to sound signals and the headlights to flick on and off. Munich taxi drivers are also installing bullet-proof glass panels between the driving seat and the passenger seats behind. A taxi driver, Englebert Amberger, was shot dead in his cab by a passenger in a Munich suburb in January, and a number of others have been murdered in recent years.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28890, 9 May 1959, Page 10
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