GUESSING SPEED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 22

GUESSING SPEED

WHAT EXPERIMENTS SHOWED The car you are driving is probably capable of a speed of from 60 to 70 miles an hour, but you cannot use this speed for any length of time without courting disaster.

The modern highway, while built like a speedway, is not a one-way proposition like the race track. Therefore the driver who speeds must always make frequent and nerveracking stops, which cuts down his average tifhe to a minimum. His speed is far below that of the driver who maitains a steady pace hour after hour.

One driver has discovered that much can be learned about speeding by driving the car with the speedometer disconnected. » For the test he secured the services of a friend who followed him over a prescribed course in another car. The driver with the disconnected speedometer proceeded just as he would under normal conditions, and then checked up with the actual speed record as noted by the friend following him. The results were surprising. Invariably he drove from five to 15 miles an hour faster than he thought he was going. The experiment showed plainly that the average driver cannot guess his speed, and that he invariably goes faster than he thinks. It shows that a car driver is speeding whenever his conception of a safe stopping distance is less than the actual stopping distance.

The rubber tread of a balloon or high-pressure casing will give uniformly satisfactory service under normal conditions.

The causes often responsible for too rapid tread wear are the various forms of wheel irregularities, such as misalignment, wobbles, and unevenly adjusted brakes.

Safety is more than philantrophy. It has now become a vital fundamental factor in the economics of business. —South African “Safety Gazette.”

The Citroen works in Paris were recently enlarged, and the manager advertised for 10,000 new employees. Police were required to keep the queue of unemployed in order.

Instal bolts with nut down when possible. If the nut works off the bolt is more likely to repaain in place.

THIS AUTOMOBILE AGE “Jones is so old-fashioned.” “Why so?” “He always go back after hitting anyone.”

Wonder what motor-car mechanics wipe their hands on when there are no steering-wheels handy?

The Great Western Railway in England has just sent to the factory a repeat order for 40 more “Guy” 'bus chassis. ...