[单项选择]Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibers in the brain.
The result in either case is more primitive behavior. Hostile feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way.
The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles a disease epidemic and should be investigated as such.
Dr. Ross A. Mcfarland, Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents "now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do."
Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35. About one third of all accidental death
A. Motor vehicle registration will cause an increase in accidents in the future.
B. Unless the accident rate is decreased, ten per cent of the American population will be killed or injured in motor accidents in the next 15 years.
C. There is no hope that the accident rate will decrease during the next 15 years.
D. Unless the accident rate decreases during the next 15 years, fifty per cent of the population will be kille