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Car Safety Wars - One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death (Paperback)
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Car Safety Wars - One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death (Paperback)
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Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle
to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the
highways. Described as the "equivalent of war" by the Supreme
Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and
long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a
reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the
mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to
pay for safer cars? The "Car Safety Wars" were at first won by
consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment
in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was
pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car
manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its
private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old
politician. The act is a success story for government safety
regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over
seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than
two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car
safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with
covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch
shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended
acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have-for
years-sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current
events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to
warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions
can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways
to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a
hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
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