Judge — March 22, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Signalman—Hi! You ain’t allowed to walk on the line! - Jones—I beg your pardon, but I came here to escape the motors that make the public highway so danger- ous!—Weekly Telegraph. hill may be brought to a stop within a very short dist even without the use of the brakes; whereas one traveling down-hill will sometimes be stopped with difficulty, because an upgrade adds to the stopping ability of a car where: we, a down- = le increases the speed of the car and i ases the effectiveness of the stopping ability of the tires on the road. Never- is theless, the present type of law does not ot take these changed conditions into con- . sideration and permits of as high a speed a down hill as up hill. therefore, of the enforcement icy and general failure of the average municipal speed law to accom- plish its results, why not abolish speed as a criterion of reckless driving and devise some means of judging the safety of ear he operation which can be enforced at all ed times and which will give a true med six of the danger or safety of car oper ve under existing conditions. Such a means ing could be easily employed and is thor- of oughly practical. It consists merely in m= determining the distance within which any her car can be brought to a complete stand- Ix still within any given time. Let the en- forcement officer forget the weather and condition of the brakes and tires; he is interested only in results. If a stopping distance of 100 feet in an open park drive- way is considered safe, make every motor- ist operate his car only at such a speed that it can be brought to a stop within that distance. ‘The responsibility rests on the driver. If his brakes are not in good condition he must drive more slowly; if the weather is slippery and he does not have non-skid tires or chains, he must take that into consideration and regulate his speed accordingly. nce the yho pile are this uld sof of ted rist cep The enforcement officer need not be mounted on a motorc) If he sees a car going at what he believes is an unsafe speed, he may step off from the sidewalk or out from a doorway and by a blast on his whistle or other signal, order the motorist to stop. By marking the point at which the signal is given and that at which the car was brought to a stop, the officer may easily determine if the motor- ist was driving at an unsafe speed. If the roads are siippery and the car is not equipped with non-skid tires or with chains, a skid which carries the car beyond its maximum stopping distance will not be accepted as an excuse—the driver knew those conditions existed and should have been aware of his inability to stop within the given distance. This plan can be applied to the tene- ment districts with even more marked results. Here a stopping distance of fifteen or twenty feet may be determined as the maximum for ordinary require- ments and any speed which under ez- isting conditions requires more than this distance in which to stop may well be called unsafe. This plan would take into consideration, therefore, not only road conditions, the mechanical condition of the car and tires, but the driver's operating ability and quickness of mental reaction to an emer- gency. If the driver is of such a type that he may be startled by the sudden signal of the enforcement officer to apply his brakes and stop, he would be equally startled were a child to dart from the curb into the path of the car—and in both instances a greater distance would be needed to stop, and would require that he drive at a slower speed than should one who is ever on the alert for the stop- ping signal or for the careless child. Such a law would overcome the utter absurdity of the present method of judg- ing danger by speed and neglecting the result of that sp As it is to-day, un- less a brake inspection law is rigidly en- forced, a car with faulty brake: per- mitted the same speed as one with new four-wheel brakes which may be brought to a stop in one-tenth of the distance. Furthermore, under this proposed method of enforcement we could do away with our special corps of traffic officers mounted | Jes and-use them only for the | on motor¢ apprehension of drivers of stolen cars or for criminals and could make every patrolman or other officer of the law a speed enforcement officer. Or, if we so prefer, the motorcycle officers could still be retained for the apprehension of speeders, but instead of being compelled to follow the motorist for one-eighth or one-quarter of a mile in order to “clock” the law-breaking speed on his speedom- eter, he could quietly ride along side of | him and by a blast on his whistle, order | the motorist to stop, and then measure the distance in which the car was brought to rest. H. W. Stauson, M. E. 29 Aspirin Beware of Imitations! 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