Control depends on 4 contact points each about as big as the palm of your hand!
Driver-education poster with a line drawing of a car, its four tyre contact points numbered 1 to 4, and a red outstretched hand for scale. The technique is faint: a safety message with a mild fear-appeal in its tag line that accidents are avoidable, resting mainly on instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Automobile Association, Traffic Engineering and Safety Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
American Automobile Association, Traffic Engineering and Safety Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-599 (NAID 514079).
Text on the object
Control DEPENDS ON 4 CONTACT POINTS 1 2 3 4 each about as big as the palm of your hand! [AAA emblem] © D. E. P. No. 3 Copyright 1943 American Automobile Association Traffic Engineering & Safety Dept. "DRIVER EDUCATION" SERIES Accidents Are Avoidable Alertness Avoids Accidents
