Zurich Citizens News, 1969-05-29, Page 14PAGE FOURTEEN
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS— Car Care Supplement
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1969
Safe Driving a Three -Legged stool, Expert Says
Education, Sound Cars and Roads
Help Reduce Accident Rate,
Driver Ed Teaches
Amos E. Neyhart, for more than 35 years a tireless ambas-
sador for traffic safety, likens his field to a three-legged stool.
"You take a properly educated driver, give hien a well -
engined vehicle and then design a modern highway that can
handle the traffic and you'll see a terrific reduction in the
accident rate," says the director emeritus of the Institute of
Public Safety at The Pennsylvania State University.
"Eliminate one of these factors and you're in trouble. It's
like a three-legged stool, knock a leg out and the stool will fall."
Best Known As Father of Driver Education
For all his considerable achievements in his chosen profes-
sion, Neyhart is best renowned as the father of driver educa-
tion in the nation.
For it was in 1933 that Neyhart, equipping his 1929 Graham
Paige with dual controls and footing the bills himself, taught
the first driver education course in the country.
There were 34 State College High School pupils in that class.
Today the estimate is that almost 15 million students have
learned to drive from courses modeled after Neyhart's original
edition of 36 years ago.
At last count, 13,311 of the nation's 17,954 high schools —
drinking so why don't we teach
'em that it takes the physical
system 11/2 hours to throw off
a jigger of whiskey?
"For the incorrigibles, there's
only one way to handle thein
— with a stiff jail sentence and
a high fine."
Another area which has been
left unexplored, Neyhart says,
is teaching people to drive at
high speeds. "With these new
superhighways, everyone
or 74 per cent—offer approved
courses in driver training. By
the same token, latest statis-
tics also show that 56 per cent
of the nation's pupil popula-
tion -1,725,380 of 3,093,348 stu-
dents — are enrolled in driver
education programs.
How did the whole
come about?
"Well," said Neyhart as he
sipped a cup of coffee in the
campus offices of the institute,
"I'm an industrial engineer by
profession.
A Personal Stake
"But from my years in in-
dustry, I learned that you
made no headway with your
safety programs until you con-
vinced the employee that he
had a personal stake in acci-
dent prevention.
"The same thing applied to
driving. If we were going to
make traffic safety work, we
had to work with the individ-
ual.
"We had to get 'em before
they learned bad habits. And
when was the best time for
that? Just as soon as they're
old enough to drive, and that
meant high school."
Today, at an age (69) when
most men would be thinking
of a relaxing afternoon on the
front porch, Neyhart is almost,
if not quite as active.
"I just can't sit back when
there's a lot of work to be done
and potentially a lot of lives
to be saved," he said at the
time of his retirement.
Looking back, while Neyhart
is impressed with the variety
of sophisticated aids and ma-
chinery to be utilized through
the years in the teaching of
safety education, he still ac-
knowledges some shortcom-
ings.
thing
Jail Sentence Needed
"Why don't we teach people
how to drink and drive?" he
asked recently. "We know
they're not going to stop
AMOS E. NEYHART
Father of Driver Education
should know how to decelerate
a vehicle from the legal speed
limit," he theorizes.
And finally, he advocates
the construction of community
driving areas — simulated ob-
stacle courses to give drivers
experience in handling an au-
tomobile when "they go into a
skid; when their tires blow;
when they run off the shoul-
der; when their brakes give
Even in the early days of driver training, students were taught basic mechanics of a car. Driver
training founder Antos E. Neyhart explained workings to his 1933 State College High School class.
out on a windy roadway, things
like that."
Right Way, Only Way
He says: "We've been teach -
The tip of this coil was so badly
eroded it had completely dis-
appeared on one side. Plastic tape
to the rescue ... temporarily.
This is an oil filler cap. It is sup-
posed to breathe through a wire
mesh filter. This one choked to
death long ago and its engine suf-
fered the consequences.
ROUGH DRIVING COSTS
An Australian television
network staged a two -car run
where one car was driven in
a normal, safe manner and the
other was driven hard to make
faster time. While finishing
the 238 -mile course in 40 min-
utes quicker time, the hard -
driving motorist used 86 per-
cent more tire tread (91 cents
worth) ; 55 cents more in fuel
and 31 cents more in brake
wear. So, the 40 minutes saved
cost him $1.77. The moral:
take it easy. and save.
"
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"You can fry, bu+ I doub+ if he'll flip you double or no+hing for +he +une up"
ing manipulative skills; how
to start, steer, back up, make
turns. We have not been teach-
ing accident prevention skills.
This is a criticism of the pro-
gram I accept. We haven't
gotten into this, and I won't
be satisfied until we do."
To Neyhart, there is only
one way for a youngster to
learn how to drive and that's
the right way.
"What good is geometry or
chemistry to a young boy who
gets killed on the highway?"
he asks. "Driver education is
not merely a preparation for
life — it's a way to stay alive."
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