Electrified Motor-Vehicles

Abstract

WHILE to experience an electric shock from a motor-vehicle appears from a recent note to be unusual in England¹, it is so common in the United States as to call for no comment. An interesting consequence of this phenomenon is to be seen on the San Francisco-Oakland and Golden Gate Bridges, where thousands of cars a day pass the toll gates and where the continuous small shocks suffered by receivers of toll on touching coins handed to them by drivers of cars have proved very unpleasant. Wire brushes standing about one foot high have accordingly been installed immediately before all toll gates so that cars as they approach are relieved of their accumulated charges. In at least one toll station in this country a jet of water is sprayed on the wheels of approaching cars for the same purpose.