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...Berlin, Conn., after he was nagged down by a cop for illegal passing on the right, Motorist William H. Veale commented: "This is embarrassing," produced a card in traffic court identifying himself as secretary of the Connecticut League for Law Enforcement...
Fair-Weather Friends. In Detroit, Motorist Lawrence D. McDermott had his license suspended for six months and was fined $100 despite his explanation that when he crashed into a parked police cruiser he was too busy bragging to a passenger about "the good police protection we have in Detroit" to notice where he was going...
...Cars will probably get no bigger, but they will get slightly lower and have more glass all around. By using smaller wheels and dropping the hood line, designers expect to turn out cars that look lower than present models, but actually will have the same headroom. To enable a motorist to get into a low car without bumping his head on the top, at least one automaker next year will curve the door panels into the roof. Automakers will rely even more heavily on two-and three-tone color combinations to accentuate body lines...
...engines. Acceleration in the low-and middle-speed ranges is almost twice as fast: a 1946 model took 24 seconds to go from 10 to 60 m.p.h., the average 1955 model does it easily in less than 15 seconds: a few can do it in ten. For the crackpot motorist this is an invitation to disaster. But for thousands of others the ability to hit cruising speeds fast means fewer traffic jams, less danger pulling onto high-speed turnpikes...
...both public and insurance companies, the uninsured motorist has long been a troublemaker. Not only does he often drive an old car in rundown condition, he also has little or no cash to pay for the damage he does. As a result, the pressure has been building up in state after state for compulsory liability insurance, now common in Europe but so far adopted in only one U.S. state (Massachusetts). The insurance industry vigorously opposes the idea for fear of political rate-setting and excessive losses from bad-risk drivers...