Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Prices of Motor Vehicle Safety Equipment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Prices of Motor Vehicle Safety Equipment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Car Safety Wars
Author: Michael R. Lemov
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
The U.S. Motor Vehicle and Equipment Industry Since 1958
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Implementation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89. Reviews implementation of act's automobile safety feature requirements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89. Reviews implementation of act's automobile safety feature requirements.
Implementations of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, Hearing...90-2, April 25, 1968, Serial No. 90-89
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Auto Safety Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air bag restraint systems
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air bag restraint systems
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Auto Safety Oversight, Hearings Before..., 92-2, July 19, 20, and 25, 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description