Safest Place, The (1935)

warning yah they are taught asleep in the heath so beware Oh well suppose he thinks home is just about the safest place in the world 4 million accidents resulted in the American home last year and how many narrow escapes nobody will ever know let's get out of here before somebody gets hurt here's a surprise you'd think this would be far more dangerous than home sweet home but accidents seldom happen among careful workers like these fellows statistics show a wonderful safety record for transport planes too but let's get down to earth on wheels here is the safest place to be in the modern home on wheels you ride in a solid steel living room and over you is a turret top roof under you is a rigid steel foundation with steering controls anchored to the frame knee action to keep you steady over the bumps and set you down easy in case of a blow of dependable brakes to stop you safely in every emergency no draft ventilation for your Health's sake and you can have safety glass all around the factory men have done everything to make sure of the finest durable materials with precision workmanship and inspectors who check the dependability of every working mechanism and every selected part every possible safeguard has been set up by traffic officers and highway commissioners to guide you safely along the streets and highways when the car leaves the factory only one thing is needed for safety and that's a careful driver if the manufacturer could equip every car with an automatic driving mechanism the car would always do just what it should do when it got out on the road with such a driving control the car wouldn't pull away from the curb without signaling or looking back for oncoming traffic with such a driving control the car would keep in line instead of weaving in and out of traffic with such control it would always get into the proper lane before turning it would always obey Boulevard stop signs with an automatic driving mechanism the car would stop before cutting into traffic it wouldn't pass other cars on dangerous curves and it would always come to a stop before crossing a railroad whether or not your car is the safest place depends entirely on you the driver of the car if you obey the traffic rules if you don't hog the road if you don't make a secret of what you're going to do so the fellow behind you isn't up in the air if you don't risk your life to get a second ahead at stoplights if you realize that high top speeds have been built into your motorcar to give you safety reserve at lower speeds not so you can win the daily road race if you drive safely and carefully and courteously at all times you can be sure that your living room on wheels will always be the safest place in the world for you to be