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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
Car safety wars
:
one hundred years of technology, politics, and death
Enthält:
Love and death on the open road -- Voices in the wilderness -- Just a congressman from a small state -- Safety doesn't sell -- General Motors meets Ralph Nader -- A federal law -- Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the new safety agency -- Dragon lady -- The birth and near death of the air bag -- Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and how America got the air bag -- Rough road for recalls : Ford Pinto gas tanks to GM ignition switches -- Forcing technology : safety standards in the new century.
Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index
Beschreibung:
"Car Safety Wars is the gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives. Described as the 'equivalent of war' by the Supreme Court, the long battle for automobile safety was won by consumers and safety advocates after decades of defeat."--