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DON'T TRY THIS WITH YOUR CAR!
This Chevrolet owner got all the attention he wanted by equipping his car with the world's largost stres, size fà x 18, capable of supporting the biggest truck over balik.
MORE DANGEROUS THAN MEN.
Relative Driving Ability of Men and Women.
Philadephia, Sept 29.
that the male operators covered much more mileage than the fo- male.
"Second," he anys, “It is rouzon- able to assume that men operate under more unsatisfactory condi tions than do women, A greater portion of them drive in heavier traffic and in stormy weather.
"Third, only male drivers operato trucks and other heavy vehicles, which are involved in a higher pro- portion of accidents than lighter
cars.
TIME OUT
Better Cars for Women "Fourth, it is possible that the mechanical condition of machines drivan by women is, on the aver age, better than those driven by men. Besides, second-hand cars are more often bought and operated by men than by women.
It was with the purpose of avoid- ing such variables and studying men and women drivers working under exactly the same conditions that the study was undertaken by Dr. Viteica and Mios Gardner, Their study is the very first to at- tempt to compare men and women drivers, not taken by and large, but as they drive under comparable con- ditions.
"We studied 2,000 male drivers," Dr. Viteles informs, "for a year.
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The National Industrial Confer-
At the same time we recorded the leace Board estimates that now 63 accidents of 150 women drivers. icenta will buy more value in auto- The tabulated results of the mobile tyres than $1 would have study show that Women taxicab bought 10 years ago.
drivers are responsible for three:
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times as many accidents per 1000 miles as men, and three and a half 100 clubs in the state have joined Tennessee reports that more than times as many accidents per $1,000 in a movement for roadside beauti- jure for men-0.257 accidents per of revenue as men.
fication. It seems that there is some foun-1,000. Besides, the women weru dation for the popular belief-at responsible for
"It seems clear from this study 5.063 accidents that the present generation of fact that a sampling of women suf- least among men-that female aut per $1,000 revenue, while the men women drivers is more susceptible fer more accidents when driving mobile drivers, on the average, are were responsible for only 1.449 per to accidents than the present gen-junder the same conditions as a much more of a menace behind the $1,000. The survey did, however, eration of men. What causes that somewhat similar sampling of men wheel than the male of the species. suggest that the accidents in which we have still to find out, but the 'is clearly established."
Science, in the cold hard facts women were Involved were less gathered by Dr. Morria S. Viteles, zorious than those in which the men assistant professor of industrial were Involved."
Bex Argument
maychology at the University of Pennsylvania, has proven that women drivers of the present gen are few subiccts of our modern life Dr. Viteles reports that there cration are more susceptible to about which there is so much dog- accidents than men.
matic and unsupported public opin-
It isn't strange when one stops on us there is about the relative to consider. Driving is a matter safety of women_and men auto- of mechanical intelligence. Few mobile drivers. There seem to be women are good mechanics and, only two opinions: men believe that Dr. Vitales believes, the lack of men are safer drivers than women, this mechanical skill is the cause safer drivera than men.
and women believe that they of their driving inability.
A Woman Agrees!
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"The question le of some impor- tance," continued Dr. Viteles, "be The scientist's survey on the re- 'cause of the tendency to substitute lative driving ability of men and women for men as operators of women was undertaken with the motor vehicles.
aid of Helen M. Gardner, a gradu- "Before we started with the taxi-i ate associate. And, strange as it'enb drivers, we got in touch with seems, Miss Gardner agrees with Insurance compantes, automobile Dr. Viteles' findings. The fact that clubs and state highway depart- a woman worked in compiling the ments for their agures. In the facts which throw no laurels to her District of Columbia we found that sex shows that the tests were given the percentago of men drivers In. with complete fairness.
volved in both fatal and non-fatal "Before wo went into the main expected on the basis of chance, accidenta was greater than is to be portion of this study of sex differ, whereas the percentage of women ences in the accident rate of men drivers involved in accidents and women taxicab drivore," Fro- less than chance. A similar ten- fensor Vitales explains, "we made dency was shown in a study of 1000 comparisons between mon and wo- fatal accidents in San Francisco. men drivers in the District of Co-| lumbia, in San Francisco, in Massa- chuaotta and in Connecticut. We found that in all these places com- parisons favoured the women.
Figures Favour Females
Was
"A report by the registrar of mo tor vehicles in Massachusetts shown that 8.2 per cent of drivers involved in fatal acidents are women, al- "However, it must be remem-though about 12 per cent bered that variables other than driving licences in the state are of the sex differences might have tended held by women.
to give this result. In order to
avoid these variables, we made a You can see how much this evi- study of taxicab drivers in a large donce favours the woman driver. castern city in which the mon and Only the statistician of the Now women who operated the same type York State Department of Taxation. of vehicle were equipped with ma- and Finance concludes from life chines in the same mechanical findings that women are involved condition, drove under the same to their numbers, as men."
in as many accidents, proportionate weather conditions; and in the same amount of traffic.
The important thing to remem- "The results of the survey with ber, according to Dr. Vitelca, is that the taxicab drivers showed that the these figures do not in any way women wore responsible for 0.767 First of all, the figures ignore a show the safety of women drivers. accidents per 1,000 miles aa com- comparison of accidents per mile pared with the much smaller fg"; of driving. It is safe to assume
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