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 and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2015]
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index
Notes
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