Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1914 — Danger. [ARTICLE]

Danger.

A protest against the use of red rear lights for ..motor cars was made by William D. Sohier, chairman of the Massachusetts highways commission, at the recent conference of the uniform motor legislation commission in New York. Ordinarily they work well, but several railway engineers have complained that upon rounding a curve they have stopped, thinking a switch must be open, only to find that the red signal was the vanishing tall light of an automobile on an adjacent road. No harm has come from it as yet, but it is possible that some time an engineer might take a danger signal for an automobile lamp, with disastrous consequences. The color of the automobile tail light is perhaps not very important, if it is generally agreed upon; red is the natural thing, but no doubt several others would do.