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CARELESS PEDESTRIANS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

AUTOS HELP

RAILROADS.

Statistiélano find that it would Pedestrians are responsible for take all the passenger and freight locomotives and all of the various

a great many automobile accidents.kinds of freight cars of the rail Too many joy-walkers rumble about roads nearly 10 days to handle all without restraint, crossing of the year's auto freight business thorough-fores where it is not at one time. During 1925' more than 3,000,000 carloads of freight Convenient for them to do so, get-were induced by the manufacture ting in the way of motorists who and tee of motor cars.

have the right-of-way and general. ly blocking traffio. Of the 21,000 men, women and children killed by automobiles during 1925, approxi mately three-fourths of them wero pedestrians.

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THE LIGHTING PUZZLE.

BAFFLING GLARE PROBLEMS.

(Special Report to The Hongkong Telegraph by Israel Klein.)

for so many years that engineers have finally decided to concentrate-

Glaring headlights have taken the joy out of night motoring their attention on this subject.. In the past, good lighting and glare have been inseparablo. Experts are now trying to devide a way to toke the glare out of headlights and still have enough llumination to insure safe night driving.

Glaring headlights have been illumination of the roadway causing motorists no end of directly in front of the car, but bother, but they, have been giving offer insufcient Illumination für lighting engineers and state high enough ahead to allow driving at way officials even more troublo a.reasonable speed.

The problem itself is simple: Take the glare out of the head lights.

Many Ways Out.

A recent meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers pointed out some directions that lighting But the hitch to that is the experts may follow in their effort counter proposal: Keep the illu-to arrive at the best form of head- mination high enough for anfety lighting possible. |on dark highways.

Both propositions clash. Practically every suggestion Attempts have been made to re-made at this meeting, however, has duce glare from headlights, but some objectionable feature. Fer- almost invariably the illumination hapy by study of all ideas, soms (of the road ahead suffered propor-lehelent compromise may be

tionately.

jobtained. The suggestions, and

Now inembers of the Society of some objections, nre: Automotive Engineers and of the 1. Putting maximum values on Illumluating Engineering Society supposed non-glare lights defect- are putting their heads together ed below the horizontul-which in an effort to find some sort of doesn't consider the contour of compromise.

roads and the springiness of cars.

Can't Eliminate Glare...

2. Enforcing diffused lighting The immensity of such a task on vehicles of moderate speed- may be gleaned from some of the which would give ofejala quite difficulties in the way of head-arbitrary power. light engineers.

3. Mounting headlights

drivers.

un-

One outstanding objection to the symmetrically, as is suggested by present, type of non-glare heud- the use of spotlights, or "courtesy" fights is the fact that roads are lights. This would detract from not all level. Another is the the appearance of the car. springy action of cars that cause 4. Using only a strong right even the so-called non-glare lamps headlight and only a marker light to strike the eyes of oncoming for the left side, in traffic, or while cars are passing. This But with rough, hilly and would require regular dimming curving roads, and with the neees- equipment, and ต measure of

the sity of springs on our cars, the courtesy from

15,000,000 non-glare headlights of to-day drivers of the country. glare despite themselves. So

From Herse Days. some other means of headlighting 5. Use of a powerful ligh: underneath or at the front axle Downward tilting lights have to illuminate the roadway prác- been suggested and have even tically horizontally, just as ofl been made part equipment on lamps used to furnish fights for some cars. But a tilting light is horsedrawn trucks. Eut here even more objectionable than the again the grades, whether up or straight non-glare light that is down hill, would not get the need- supposed to keep its beams below ed illumination... the horizontal.

Tilting lights cause excessive

is wanted.

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6. Use of a shade or coloured glass on the windshield to lessen glare from approaching cars, so that heavy headlights may be permissible.

7. Use of frosted bulbs. These, however, aren't half as powerful na the unfrosted type and do not end the giare problem.- All improvements, depend on the human eye, which still has to be studied in its relationship to night automobile lighting. Research into the human, as well as the mechanical factor of the entire problem has been suggested and is to be taken up by both organi- zations: interested, as. irell ng by the U. S. Bureau of Standards and various state departments.

Use of spotlights to illuminate the road at a distance ahead of the regular headlight illumination isn't approved because the spot- Jight brings out only a small area in the road ahead. What is want- Jed is illumination of an area large enough for the driver to feel com- fortably certain of safety in driving toward it.

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ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT.

Studies made following a demand during the war for more and better fuel supply have resulted in the discovery of a mixture of gaso- line and anhydrous alcohol, said to be far more efficient than the modern fuel.

Announcement of this discovery

is made by Dr. Milton C. Whitaker, head of the United States Indus- trial Alcohol Company, through the American Chemical Society.

Industrial, or denatured, alcohol; is being used up, mostly by the in- dustries and can't be produced-in sufficient quantities for motor use, says Dr. Whitaker. Research in this country resulted in a con- tinuous process of distillation by yielding anhydrous alcohol, of almost 100 per cent. grade, in Jarge volume and at low cost.

This kind of alcohol, it was found, mixes readily with gasoline in any proportions, and raises the efficiency of the fuel to a high degree.

At present, however,, the mix- ture would cost more than the gasoline alone, and while this con- dition exists, anys Dr. Whitaker, thore is no need for the mixture in auto engines. But an economic balance may come in the future when the price of gasoline will bo high enough, and that of alcohol low enough, to make the mixture of both prostable,

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