SESSION I 337 so that in the event of an emergency your radio would go on. know how far they've gone with it. This was a year ago. I[ don't HEMLER: They've been discussing this quite widely with manufacturers, in order to get it to a satis‘actory automatic thing. ROOT: Will your transistor go on’ HEMLER: I would imagine that this requirement would be one of the desired characteristics. ROOT: What radios, other than transistors, would go on if the electric power was out? DOBSON: The question is could such an automatic switch be practical on a transistor radio? TAYLOR: The receiver has to be on all the time. DOBSON: It has to have energy. TAYLOR: You can do that; you can just have it run on all the MILLER: I guess the impression from what has been said is that there's no energy. time. If the batteries are turned off, Why not just leave the radio on? if there is a local incident, there is nothing to worry about—that everything is under control, HEMLER: No. I believe there is a lot to worry about. That's’ the point [ was addressing myself to a while ago, the question of what happens to the people themselves when this occurs. These are the questions [ think we need to address ourselves to, particularly in this section right here. EISENBUD: I'm still trying to visualize just what the situation would be like within the [first hour, let's say, AYRES: I would agree with that. A lot of things that people think haven't been done have in fact been thought about but there are still uncertainties and very bad problems and those are what we should discuss, HEMLER: The reactions of people.