Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did Travelers Insurance Co. last week flip before U. S. motorists another semaphore to slow the speeding driver, who in 1938 was responsible for almost 27% of the 32,000 deaths and 17% of the 1,145,600 injuries in automobile accidents...
...page pamphlet titled Lest We Regret, Travelers' copy writers drove home the meaning of D. U. to the heavy-footed driver. Energy increases as the square of speed. Thus, if speed is doubled, energy is multiplied four times; if tripled, is multiplied nine times. If 25 miles an hour is the speed of one D. U., 35 is that of two, 50 miles of four, 60 of six and 75 of nine...
...Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors built in the mountainside...
...electrical system for shocking an automobile driver when he drives too fast...
...automobile radio transmitter which warns police in the vicinity when the driver exceeds the speed limit...