Word: motorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway and auto-safety mea sures often make the cure seem worse than the disease. Seat belts save 2,000 to 2,500 lives annually, estimates the National Safety Council; yet motorists have to be cajoled into buckling them in stead of sitting on them. New super-lighways eliminate dangerous curves and intersections while creating new hazards in the form of bridge piers, complicated cloverleafs and, not least, driver boredom. Two new devices offer relatively painless and inexpensive ways to reduce crash damage without placing new burdens on the motorist...
Under the A.I.A. plan, a motorist who desired protection against damage to his own automobile would be obliged to buy regular collision, fire, theft or comprehensive insurance. Instead of the usual liability policy, however, he would carry compulsory coverage under which he (and his passengers) would be reimbursed immediately by his own insurance company-not the other drivers'-for all hospital and medical expenses, damage to property other than automobiles and lost wages of up to $750 a month for an unlimited period...
Record-breaking car sales are certainly no cause for celebration by the urban motorist of any country. When he must park, his choices remain-as ever-a scarce spot on the street (where the car may be towed away), a tight little space on a self-service lot (where he is likely to bang up his fenders trying to get in or out), or a garage (where a slam-bang attendant will take care of the fender smashing). At long last, a few entrepreneurs have begun approaching parking on the premise that it ought to be carried out with...
...Flagrant Few. the The insurers' plan thus differs from the widely discussed reforms proposed by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In most accident cases, their "Basic Protection" scheme calls for a motorist's own insurance company to pay him, his passengers and any pedestrians he hits, regardless of who was to blame for an accident. "We don't think it would be fair to eliminate the idea of fault completely," says the Alliance's Wise, "and require injured persons to insure themselves...
...certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether he can do so without danger, and who does not do so because he sees a policeman at the last minute, has certainly committed a moral fault...