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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1952)
Traffic Conference Delegates View Safety Exhibition (Continued from fage one) than the figure of about 110 feet which would be expected in figur ing from the results at the lower speed. (Reaction distance increases directly with speed, but braking distance increases with the square of the speed. So, with twice the speed, the braking distance would be four times as great—30 plus 80 or 110 feet would have been ex pected. However, it appeared to this re porter that the driver .anticipating the shot, started automatically to slow down before it was fired, and thus may not have been going 40 miles per hour at the time (al though he may have been travel ing faster than 40 mph before slowing down, and had to slow down to reach that speed. In the second part of the dem onstration, passing, conditions were not as favorable as desired, despite blockades on 15th and 18th avenues. Cars pulling out from parking lines interfered with the trials, decreasing accuracy. In the two attempts at passing a police car going 20 miles per hour, it took the second car 84 and 8% seconds respectively to pass. At 30 mph the car was un able to pass in the distance avail able. The figures obtained at 20 miles per hour were slightly less than the 9-second standard figure, ac Conference Schedule Schedule on the traffic court conference’s last day: 9 a.m.—Traffic court proced ures (panel discussion) 11—Traffic court violations bureau (address by James P. Economos, director of the Amer ican Bor association’s traffic court program) 1 p.m. — Answer period (by three traffic court experts from Chicago. Delegates had turned in questions concerning traffic court problems on “This is what 1 want to know”.) 2—Uniform traffic ticket practices (addresses by Econo mos and Robert L Donigun, counsel for the Northwestern university traffic institute) S—Presentation of certificates of participation. Opening sessions of the con ference Wednesday morning be ing held in Fenton hall were at tended by Oregon Governor Douglas McKay, Supreme Court Justice James T. Brand and At torney General George T. Neu ner. cording to the narrator. At that speed, he said, a car would travel 350 feet before another could pass it. "People who think they can pass another car in the distance of half a city block are either ignor ant or just don’t care,” he said. ‘Accurate Enough* The tests were not completely accurate, Eugene Police Chief Ted Brown said later Thursday, but they were accurate enough to show the distance required to stop a ear. According to police charts, a car traveling at 20 miles per hour on dry pavement (the pavement Thursday was fairly wet, but the friction was about the same as that on dry pavement, the nar rator stated,) is going 29 feet per second. It will travel 22 feet from the time a driver receives some kind of warning-to-stop signal, and an additional 21 feet, for a total of 43 feet stopping distance. At 70 miles per hour, Brown said, a car is going 103 feet per second, and will travel 77 feet while the driver reacts, 251 feet braking distance, or 328 feet in all. Tacks Halt Traffic GANDEEVILLE, W. Va. (U.R) Vandals carpeted roads around this little community with tacks and roofing nails. Garages did a booming business changing tires. A funeral procession bogged down when five automobiles were stop ped by punctures. Read ana use mmerald classi fieds. SU Board Changes Committee Names; Hears Reports, Social Hour Plans Names of two Student Union committees were etoanged at the Wednesday meeting of the Student Union board. The concert committee has been renamed the muste committee which the Board considered to be a more appropriate name for its activities. It handles all “live” music programs. Recorded music committee is the new name for the old Music group which handles the record listen ing room. Reports were heard from the forum committee, the faculty card committee and the record lending library committee. The SU board treasurer, Jane Wiggen. also sub mitted her monthly report. The board was informed of a SU social hour held Thursday j evening at 7p.m.. in the Dad's. Lounge. Traffic Judge Rejects Alcometer Evidence NEW HAVEN. Conn.(U.P.)-Judge j Harold E. Alprovis ruled in .city j court that an alcometer—devised I by Yale—is not enough to convict a driver of being drunk. The judge dismissed a charge against William E. Smith, 22, be cause the prosecutor lacked cor robating evidence. The alcometer is a device which measures the percentage of alcohol ’ in the blood. Boat'd Chairman, Ralph Hillier, told the group dances will be hold in the SU ballroom during the state basketball tournament - for high school students and University students who wish to attend. 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