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...Youthful operators unquestionably have the greatest accident incidence," says Dr. Harry R. DeSilva, Lecturer in Psychology, in "Age and Highway Accidents," an article in December's "Scientific Monthly...
...Harry R. DeSilva, head of driver training in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, having supervised scientific driver tests on several control groups of 500 men apiece, reported yesterday that a 90 percent reduction in the accidents of his subjects had been shown after exhaustive clinic tests had been conducted in seventeen states...
Those drivers who received what Dr. DeSilva termed "generalized safety instruction" produced only a 60 percent accident reduction, thus demonstrating conclusively to the Bureau the effectiveness of scientific tests, as compared to the less specific training given to other control groups...
...DeSilva declared, "You can get results by using scientific tests because the driver is convinced then. People don't do things because you tell them, but because it seems reasonable to them...
...complete set of the DeSilva equipment, formerly located in Hemenway gymnasium, will be placed on the fourth floor of the show, where it will be explained and operated by the students. The machinery, which cost $50,000 and took four years to develop, will be in continuous operation for the duration of the show...