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...annual Automobile show which opened yesterday in New York City's Grand Central Palace, by students in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research. Nineteen men now studying traffic problems and their solution will operate the devices for driver-testing in a "driver's clinic" developed by Harry R. DeSilva, lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control...
...better drivers are married and only moderately well-off. While a dark-eyed person is less subject to glare blindness than a blue-eyed one and therefore a better night driver, he is more apt to be colorblind, said Dr. DeSilva...
Although reaction time decreases with a small amount of alcohol, a more pronounced state of inebriation results in "an inveterate tendency to strike between the pedals when applying the brake." Coordination of the foot is lost sooner than control of the hands, Dr. DeSilva stated. "Often a man with no control of his feet could do a good job of steering, if he could only...
After criticizing the present licensing tests as impracticle for weeding out unfit applicants, Dr. DeSilva illustrated several of his tests with the aid of innocent victims from the audience. Sitting before a dashboard and steering wheel to simulate actual conditions, the driver was able to apply the brake within three-fourths second after a red light flashed on the dial. But when forced to keep an imaginary radiator in a narrow road projected before him, the operator experienced considerable difficulty...
With the addition of a stop light on the road, which shifted continually, control of the radiator became a Herculean task. Dr. DeSilva explained that the average driver can stay on the road 64 percent of the time, but some are in the ditch 90 percent of the test. If the car were left to steer itself, it would be in the ditch only 30 percent...