Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
URGES REGULATION OF SPEED
IN TRAFFIC AND ON OPEN ROAD
National Committees Suggest Adoption
of System for Measurement of Hazards.
Discusses Liability of Motor Drivers.

/ by members of the committee to state
his views on speed and its regulation.
Speed" said DR.. McClintock, lis an
anomalous quantity in motor traffic.
One might say that it was responsible
| for all danger in automobile driving,
because If there were no speed, no mo-
ton, there would be no contact and
thereby no casualty AT the same time
| speed, per Sc, cannot be blamed for any
accidents. A perfect driver, in a per-
! feet car, on a perfect road, naturally,
can go at any speed he desires without
| accident. Good drivers in this country
frequently travel at 80 or even 80 miles
over the highways in perfect safety.
Therefore, believe that we have to
approach this speed question from an
entirely different angle. believe there
should be some scale of determination
of the increasing hazard as speed In
creases. That speed should be regarded
not as a hazard itself, but rather as
an amplification of the hazard"
DR.. McClintock declared he did not
think speed should be thought OF or
regulated in terms of miles per hour or
any other measurement, but should be
used itself as a measurement OF the
liability of the driver who is using the
speed.
Upon DR.. McClintock's suggestion the
mendation for removal of the speed
limit of vehicles on the open road and
the proposal that 1t be raised to so
miles an hour, was referred to the tech
meal committee.
The speed question is by far the most
important before the technical COM
mittee and one for which the members
are girding their loins for work IN
earnest
DIR. McClintock Presides.
The technical committee was organ
lied Immediately following the meeting
of the general committee ana DR.. NC
Clintock was chosen as chairman.
1t was tentatively agreed that 1t would
meet the latter part Of January, at q
city convenient for the greater number
of the members, New York. Chicago or
Los Angeles. In the meantime the
members are to draft their opinions on
the speed and right-of-way questions
and a number of minor considerations
before them. and send them to the COM
mittee's secretary not later than jan
uary 4, so that they can be correlated
into general summary of views Of the
members and threshed out at the meet
ing later in the month.
Several meetings of the technical
committee will be held. 1t is announced,
before the next meeting of the general
committee mere In the spring.
Committee Personnel.
Members of the committee are:
DR.. McClintock, G. w. Stark of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States; william Butler. general counsel
for the United States Casualty Co.; w.
w. Cloud, president of the yellow Cab
Co.: j. Allen Davis of the Automobile
Club of Southern California. a repre-
sentative of the American Automobile
Association to be later designated: Ben
jamin G.. Eynon, commissioner of motor
vehicles of Pennsylvania: D. G. Fenner.
truck manufacturer; j. M. Fried, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce Of
Vicksburg. Miss. Edward w. James.
chief of the division of designs, Bureau
of Public Roads; Burton w. Marsh,
Pennsylvania State traf1c engineer: Jo-
seph G. Myers. attorney; A. H. Rudd,
chief signal engineer Pennsylvania Rail-
road: Frank Seydel. counsel for the
National Board of Fire Underwriters;
Hawley s. Simpson of the American
Electric Railway Association: Sidney J.
Williams, director of the trafic safety
division of the National Safety Council,
and Thomas G. Young motor dealer Of
Baltimore.