KEEPING DRIVER AWAKE
USE FOR AUTO-RADIOS Owners of large fleets of motor trucks in America have found that the use of auto-radios by their drivers tends to, decrease accidents both to their cars and to others, as the radio keeps drivers awake and alert to the dangers of night driving. Often the monotony of driving results, it is stated, in a tendency to hypnotise the driver into semi-wakeful-ness or sleep. Through the interest aroused by the music or entertainment coming in over the air, he finds himself fully awake and alert, ready for any emergency. The increased demand for automobile radios due to a recognition of their important safety factor has brought about an increase recently of 2000 men added to the number of workers in one of the leading auto-radio factories in the United States.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 11 (Supplement)
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