Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — New Auto Safety Device. [ARTICLE]

New Auto Safety Device.

The municipal authorities of Paris have under consideration an ordinance making it obligatory for all motor cars to carry a device by means of which passengers in the Interior of their car may stop it instantly without the assistance of the chauffeur. Such a measure would prevent accidents similar to that in which the two children of Isadora Duncan met their death. Another preventable accident of the same kind was caused in Paris a short time ago by a chauffeur fainting on his box. The proposed device which the technical committee of the prefecture of the Seine has before it for consideration is said to be easily applied to any automobile at a coet of about $lO.