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Everyday throughout America, the Overspeeder runs over somebody and "escapes."
That is the way it reads. At present the 'mobile numbers are so small that
ordinary eyes cannot read them, upon a swiftly receding machine, at a distance
of a hundred feet--a distance which the machine has covered before the spectator
can adjust his focus. I think I would amend the law. I would enlarge the
numbers, and make them readable at a hundred yards. For overspeeding--first
offence--I would enlarge the figures again, and make them readable at three
hundred yards--this in place of a fine, and as a warning to pedestrians
to climb a tree. - "Overspeeding," Harper's Weekly, 5 Nov. 1905 (from a letter to the editor dated 18 Oct. 1905) |
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