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...solid statistical proof of their value, I have found it: of 34 persons killed on the New Jersey Turnpike last year, not one was wearing a seat belt. There is something else the automakers should do: place the ignition switch and the emergency brake near the middle of the dashboard, so that a front-seat passenger can reach them in case the driver is incapacitated. GILBERT CANT New York City...
...which contains no cops, only whirring machines with tiny electric brains. In the third, Bradbury postulates one man who alone among the scattered survivors of a thermonuclear holocaust remembers the civilization that preceded it. But somehow he can remember only material minutiae -candy wrappers, imitation flowers, the dashboard of a Cadillac...
...Bang-Bang. The car's owner, Commander Caractacus Pott, fortyish, is rather like Commander James Bond, except that he has a family, and the car, a supercharged Paragon Panther, is a near cousin to 007's Bentley. "You see those knobs and levers and lights on the dashboard?" asks Pott. "We'll find out what they're for in time." But of course...
CHRYSLER'S Autofare is one big witty spoof on automania. A 34-ft.-high "car of the future" has giant bucket seats made of real buckets, an airmail box on the dashboard and, under the hood, a hot-water bottle. More fun is poked at machines in a puppet-movie, in the Auto-Animal Zoo and in the Engine Fun House...
...carefully knocked the ash from his Ignacio Haya Gold Label cigar into the shiny new dashboard tray. At each traffic light, his dark eyes surveyed the car's interior and his fingers roamed over every piece of metal and fabric within reach. At one light, the driver of a Chevrolet Impala pulled along side and mouthed through his closed window: "Is that it?" He was left behind in the exhaust. As the white car approached a school bus and slowed again, the win dows flew up and the children in side chanted: "Mustang! Mustang! Mustang!" This week Ford...