WHO'S TO BLAME

Year Published: 1960s

Format: 16mm

Description: Dating to the 1960s or early 70s, WHO'S TO BLAME is a classic driver's education film complete with devastating car-into-tree crashes — with crash test dummies — filmed in slow-mo. This also includes footage from the famed UCLA automobile test center known as the ITTE (Institute for Transportation and Traffic Engineering). The film emphasizes defensive driving and shows several scenarios where road rage, drinking, and inattention cause accidents. Still very active in the modern era, the National Safety Council saves lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the roads through leadership, research, education and advocacy. The Institute for Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ITTE) was established in 1947 by an act of the California Legislature. The University of California was asked to carry on instruction and research related to the design, construction, operation and maintenance of highways, airports, and related facilities for public transportation. The Institute maintained staff, offices and research facilities on the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses. The impetus behind the legislative act was that, in 1947 there was recognized a need to define and pursue research and training supporting renewal and improvement of transportation facilities, undernourished during the Thirties and overworked during World War II. In the Fifties and Sixties, transportation problems broadened from those of providing and maintaining facilities to problems of planning, intermodal integration, and the management of traffic in different kinds of systems.

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