TOO LOW FOR COMFORT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 15

TOO LOW FOR COMFORT

SAFETY ALSO QUESTIONED

Mr. Herbert Chase, engineering editor of the "Automotive Daily News," recently had some pointed things to say as to the advantages, real or supposed, of building cars low to the ground. A low centre of gravity, as compared to one a few inches higher than in present cars, he says, reduces the chance of the car ' overturning under certain conditions rarely encountered in service, but at the same time it introduces a worse skidding hazard, because, on a curve, there is a greater horizontal component and less pressure of outside tires on road surfaces. N On the score of discomfort, he goes on, most people find it difficult to enter and to get out of cars with low roofs, and short persons as well as those who are tall have difficulty in seeing out of cars with low seats, high cowls, and narrow windshields. The chief pretext for low cars is better appearance, but it has yet to be proved that equally fine appearance cannot be attained with bodies enough higher to assure comfort and good vision.