Car safety wars : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death / Michael R. Lemov.
2015
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Title
Car safety wars : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death / Michael R. Lemov.
Published
Madison, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
Call Number
KF2212 .L46 2015
ISBN
9781611477450 (cloth : alk. paper)
161147745X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611477467 (electronic)
1611477468
161147745X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611477467 (electronic)
1611477468
Description
xvi, 255 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)898087040
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue
xi
1.
Love and Death on the Open Road
1
2.
Voices in the Wilderness
13
3.
Just a Congressman from a Small State
33
4.
Safety Doesn't Sell
49
5.
General Motors Meets Ralph Nader
67
6.
A Federal Law
89
7.
Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the New Safety Agency
109
8.
Dragon Lady
131
9.
The Birth and Near Death of the Air Bag
147
10.
Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and How America Got the Air Bag
159
11.
Rough Road for Recalls: Ford Pinto Gas Tanks to GM Ignition Switches
175
12.
Forcing New Technology: Safety Standards in the New Century
201
Epilogue: A Hard Road to Travel
221
Appendix A
Major Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (As of February 2011)
225
Appendix B
Sources for Passenger Motor Vehicle Safety Information
233
Interviews by the Author
235
Bibliography
237
Index
245
About the Author
255