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...Judge, knowing the unsatisfactory results of compulsory automobile insurance in Massachusetts, has made another suggestion. Apropos the recent movement to lower the car registration fee and have it fixed on a flat basis, the Judge believes that it would be to the State's advantage to permit motorists to earn for themselves the lower registration fee by getting credits based on their own care and their acceptance of responsibility to others, which would be demonstrated by each one carrying public liability insurance. He therefore has suggested that the State ''adopt the policy of allowing a credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Thus lined up was a perfect example of a legal situation familiar in every state. Many a motorist has refused a ride to a hitch-hiker for fear of being liable for damages which might occur to him. Many another driver whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Guest Claims | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Grange, his automobile battery went dead. Mrs. Taylor went to a nearby filling station for help. She looked, to a farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: General & Widow | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bay Bridge | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...doctor once told City Traffic Engineer Ralph Dorsey of Los Angeles that in night driving a motorist's eyes become so sensitized to the white stripe painted down the middle of many highways that he follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Wriggle Roads | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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