Not all red roses
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WHILE on the subject of Russia, I am amused to see that human nature refuses to be squeezed into neat, conforming little patterns even in such a well regulated society.
A traffic safety research institute is to be set up in Moscow with top priority to study traffic engineering and "the necessity of adapting human behaviour to conditions of dense traffic".
Soviet industry will soon be producing about lm cars a year and "the co-relation between professional and private drivers will change considerably". This message has penetrated deep. The USSR chief of State Motor Vehicle Inspection, Militia Commissioner Valeri Lukyanov says that a shock-proof vehicle ensuring occupant's safety in even a head-on crash at up to 40 mph would not be a cure for road troubles. Why? He adds: "There would still be devil-may care drivers and careless pedestrians".
I thought they had ways of dealing with that.