Word: pacer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, the nation's fourth automaker, American Motors Corp., is making an even bolder play to increase showroom traffic. Despite the dismal sales climate, A.M.C. is bringing out a brand-new car. Called the Pacer, the new entry is a two-door subcompact aimed primarily at the urban market...
...products supposed to save gasoline, a more acceptable form of gas-mileage salesmanship. Ford, for example, offers for $20.95 an instrument-panel "fuel sentry" that warns a driver when he should decelerate because he is burning too much gas. Chrysler will soon offer for $10 to $12 a "fuel pacer system"-a light mounted on the fender that glows when a driver is wasting fuel by accelerating too fast. Such devices may be useful, but most drivers are likely to find that the ultimate fuel-saving gadget is a small...
American Motors plans to bring out this fall a new minicar, tentatively named the Pacer, that Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. describes as "clearly different, perhaps controversial." The car has a rounded rear end, lots of glass and may have front-wheel drive...
...eliminating the usual clutter caused when two or three events are staged simultaneously. When Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren bounded his way to an easy victory over three opponents by reaching 17 ft. 6 in., the audience was not distracted by competition in the mile run. Another I.T.A. innovation was pacer lights; spaced every ten yards along the track, the lights told both the competitors and the crowd what pace the racers were maintaining. Running against the lights, Lee Evans broke Martin Bilham's indoor world record in the 600-meter...
Unbelievably Successful. The system still has its own gaps. For example, a motorist who refuses or is unable to follow the pacer lights can frustrate the computer, which tries frantically to backtrack and pick up his car again. A second phase of the testing will involve a less complex arrangement of moving bands of green and white light on an electronic railing along the ramp; a driver who cannot or will not keep abreast of a green band (programmed, like the pacer lights, to deliver him to a predetermined slot in highway traffic) can either fall back and pick...