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...avoid using them (some 80% of drivers and passengers do not buckle their lap and shoulder belts now). Air bags do not require a motorist to do anything; they inflate instantly upon the impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat passengers from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield. To be fully effective, however, an air-bag system should be supplemented with a lap belt-which is not passive. Only one other passive-restraint system exists, a shoulder harness that automatically protects the driver when the door is closed...
...good buddies" are sure learnin' fast how to outfox Smokey the Bear. The sophisticated way to beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...
Thus did Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. explain an odd-sounding ruling last week. He admitted that air bags-which inflate instantly upon impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat riders from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield-might save an estimated 12,000 lives a year if installed on all U.S.-made cars. Nonetheless, he refused to order such universal installation. Instead, Coleman asked the car companies to outfit 500,000 cars with air bags during the next two model years, in what would amount to a mass test...
...long ago as 1917, drivers of Enger autos with V12 engines could shut off fuel to six of the cylinders by moving a lever protruding through the dashboard under the steering column. Ford has substituted electronic for human control in its "dual displacement engine" (DDE). A small (6 in. by 6 in. by 1? in.) black box mounted on the fire wall is fed information from five strategically placed sensors. These devices monitor the temperature of the engine coolant, the engine speed, the transmission setting, the engine manifold vacuum pressure and the throttle angle...
Paul Saurwein '40, who saw the incident and called the Cambridge Fire Department from a phone booth across the street to report the fire, said last night, "It started as little sparks in the dashboard and in minutes, ten-foot high flames rose over...