Radio Sets on Cars

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 11

Radio Sets on Cars

'JTIERE were 3,000,000 radios on tho • road in the United States at tho beginning of the year. By the end of the year the figure will be close to 5,000,000. They have taken a census of car radio listeners. It demonstrates tho widespread popularity of ear radio among motorists. Soon radio will bo standardised on nearly every make of car produced by the United States. British car makers should give tho matter serious consideration. The idea -that; music on the move distracts the driver lias long' been abandoned in the United States. They say it lias a contrary effect. It relieves boredom, which is dangerous, on a'long journey. The 3,000,000 motorists who .carry radios on the road make good use of them. According to the analysis tho average week-day listening to motorradio amounts to ff.fi hours every day. On Sunday the figure increases to 3.2 hours a day. In the evening 90. G per cent of owners tune-in while driving, (iff per cent in tho afternoon and (51.3 per cent in the morning. A number of drivers are so enthusiastic, according to the report, that they listen five or six hours a day. New road guides giving maps for individual States also give the radio stations and wavelengths which motorists may expect to pick up in each region.