With a cursory glance at the splash page of Popular Science's 1940 article Do You Get Traffic Jitters, you know you're in for a sublime reading experience. What exactly is happening here? Was this shot taken in the split second before this woman — a stewardess plummeting from the belly a passing airplane — splattered his grill work? Or is she simply a suicidal acrobatic doing one last forward flip before a speeding car?
The answer is equally wonderful: as part of an experiment in measuring the stress of drivers, a scientist arranges for a realistic dummy to be hurled in front of a car as he sits in the back seat, calm taking the driver's blood pressure. I wonder if he rethought the nature of his experiment somewhere between the screeching of the breaks and being hurled forward at 60mph through the vehicle's windshield.
Do You Get Traffic Jitters [Modern Mechanix]
