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Car Safety Wars : One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611477467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Car Safety WarsDDC classification:
  • 629.231
LOC classification:
  • KF2212.L46 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Love and Death on the Open Road -- Chapter Two: Voices in the Wilderness -- Chapter Three: Just a Congressman from a Small State -- Chapter Four: Safety Doesn't Sell -- Chapter Five: General Motors Meets Ralph Nader -- Chapter Six: A Federal Law -- Chapter Seven: Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the New Safety Agency -- Chapter Eight: Dragon Lady -- Chapter Nine: The Birth and Near Death of the Air Bag -- Chapter Ten: Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and How America Got the Air Bag -- Chapter Eleven: Rough Road for Recalls -- Chapter Twelve: Forcing New Technology -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Interviews by the Author -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Car Safety Wars is a concise history of the hundred-year struggle for safer cars and highways, involving at least six presidents, reluctant congresses, a fiercely resisting automobile industry, unsung heroes, and GM detectives.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Love and Death on the Open Road -- Chapter Two: Voices in the Wilderness -- Chapter Three: Just a Congressman from a Small State -- Chapter Four: Safety Doesn't Sell -- Chapter Five: General Motors Meets Ralph Nader -- Chapter Six: A Federal Law -- Chapter Seven: Dr. Haddon, Detroit, and the New Safety Agency -- Chapter Eight: Dragon Lady -- Chapter Nine: The Birth and Near Death of the Air Bag -- Chapter Ten: Elizabeth Dole, State Farm, and How America Got the Air Bag -- Chapter Eleven: Rough Road for Recalls -- Chapter Twelve: Forcing New Technology -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Interviews by the Author -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Car Safety Wars is a concise history of the hundred-year struggle for safer cars and highways, involving at least six presidents, reluctant congresses, a fiercely resisting automobile industry, unsung heroes, and GM detectives.

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