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...sensor. Whenever the presence of a potentially combustible gas closes the circuit between a pair of tiny electrodes, a yellow panel light flashes. This indicates that the Sniffer has been offended and will cut the ignition in ten seconds-just enough time, its inventor calculates, to allow the motorist to pull off the road...
Each year, about 54,000 Americans die in auto accidents, and another 2,000,000 suffer disabling injuries. Safety belts and shoulder harnesses would help reduce the carnage, if motorists wore them. According to Government surveys, only 30% of riders buckle into the belts, and a mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within...
Slowed down by a dilatory auto ahead of him on an English highway, former Racing Ace Stirling Moss stepped on the gas and passed the slowpoke. Unfortunately, the leisurely motorist turned out to be an off-duty policeman, who charged Moss with crossing a double white line. Haled into court, one of the world's most famous drivers had his license taken away. "Terribly unfair," grumbled Moss, who had to be chauffeured home by his attorney. "At the moment I'm riding a bicycle and it's bloody awful...
...Britain's high discount rates have not yet brought a leveling in prices, but the average for wage gains appears to be receding slightly from last year's 14%. While Britain was still reeling from the Rolls-Royce crash, Vehicle & General Insurance Group, which insures every eighth motorist in the country, went bankrupt...
...idea was tried and abandoned in California. Billboard cars were made and spotted around the state. Like signposts, they began to attract bullet holes. Inevitably, it happened: a passing motorist took a potshot at what he thought was a dummy and killed a patrolman...