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Book Synopsis The Struggle for Auto Safety by : Jerry L. Mashaw
Download or read book The Struggle for Auto Safety written by Jerry L. Mashaw and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining superb investigative reporting with incisive analysis, Jerry Mashaw and David Harfst provide a compelling account of the attempt to regulate auto safety in America. Their penetrating look inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spans two decades and reveals the complexities of regulating risk in a free society. Hoping to stem the tide of rising automobile deaths and injuries, Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966. From that point on, automakers would build cars under the watchful eyes of the federal regulators at NHTSA. Curiously, however, the agency abandoned its safety mission of setting, monitoring, and enforcing performance standards in favor of the largely symbolic act of recalling defective autos. Mashaw and Harfst argue that the regulatory shift from rules to recalls was neither a response to a new vision of the public interest nor a result of pressure by the auto industry or other interest groups. Instead, the culprit was the legal environment surrounding NHTSA and other regulatory agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The authors show how NHTSA's decisions as well as its organization, processes, and personnel were reoriented in order to comply with the demands of a legal culture that proved surprisingly resistant to regulatory pressures. This broad-gauged view of NHTSA has much to say about political idealism and personal ambition, scientific commitment and professional competition, long-range vision and political opportunism. A fascinating illustration of America's ambivalence over whether government is a source of--or solution to--social ills, The Struggle for Auto Safety offers important lessons about the design and management of effective health and safety regulatory agencies today.
Book Synopsis Car Safety Wars by : Michael R. Lemov
Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author :National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Consumer Automotive Safety Information Publisher :Transportation Research Board ISBN 13 :9780309062091 Total Pages :172 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (62 download)
Book Synopsis Shopping for Safety by : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Consumer Automotive Safety Information
Download or read book Shopping for Safety written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Consumer Automotive Safety Information and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Driving Forces written by James A. Dunn and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities. The most outspoken opponents call for greater regulations and restrictions to ultimately replace the automobile as the country's primary means of transportation. But their proposals all ignore one simple fact: Americans love their cars! Millions of citizens have made the automobile the most successful method of mass transportation ever developed, and they are not about to give up the personal mobility it offers. This book presents the controversial view that, for the vast majority of Americans, the automobile is not the problem, but the solution to transportation needs. While acknowledging the automobile's significant drawbacks, the author refutes much of the shrill rhetoric and doomsday predictions of its opponents. He takes a skeptical look at the major policy initiatives to tax, regulate, and provide alternatives to the automobile, pointing out that any policies designed to remove Americans from their cars without offering them a superior means of mobility are "worse than useless" and doomed to failure. The book offers suggestions and guidelines for politically realistic initiatives that preserve the benefits of the automobile while building public support for policies that will reduce its negative effects on energy use and the environment.
Book Synopsis Unsafe at Any Speed by : Ralph Nader
Download or read book Unsafe at Any Speed written by Ralph Nader and published by New York : Grossman. This book was released on 1965 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe.
Book Synopsis Don't Be a Dummy by : Arthur W. Hoffmann
Download or read book Don't Be a Dummy written by Arthur W. Hoffmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dont be a Dummy is a primer on automotive safety. It is Auto Safety 101. What every driver or passenger should know because it May Save Your Life; or a loved one. The author uses personal experience and crash dummies to explain the consequences of not following the laws of Physics and not utilizing the safety features that are available to both drivers and passengers of automotive vehicles. The focus of this book is driver-responsibility and the need to educate the public about common hazards and vehicle misuse. Large car versus small car data analysis warns about vehicle incompatibility and the need for purchasers to consider the serious consequences of selecting a vehicle to buy based only on fuel economy and low cost. Federal safety standards are discussed and what the Five (5) Star Rating System really means. The quest for fuel economy may risk your familys life or result in serious injury! Fuel economy may be false economy! The size and weight of your vehicle can mean life or death or serious injury! Protect loved ones and save the children. Always use the proper child restraint! Speed, Alcohol and Drugs are killers. Dont be a Dummy!
Book Synopsis A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking by : Jeffrey S. Lubbers
Download or read book A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking written by Jeffrey S. Lubbers and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise but thorough resource, the guide provides a time-saving reference for the latest case law, and the most recent legislation affecting rulemaking.
Download or read book The Lemon Book written by Ralph Nader and published by Moyer Bell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced by co-founder Nader and director Ditlow for the non-profit Center for Auto Safety, this is a consumer's guide to the purchase, maintenance, and repair of new or used cars, and to the laws that protect purchasers. Distributed by Rizzoli. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Moving Violations written by Lee Vinsel and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.
Book Synopsis DOT Auto Safety Hotline 888-327-4236 by :
Download or read book DOT Auto Safety Hotline 888-327-4236 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Hearings...90-1, on the Implementation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-563), March 20, 21, 1967 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Download or read book Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Hearings...90-1, on the Implementation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-563), March 20, 21, 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motor Vehicle Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1975- include activities under the National traffic and motor vehicle safety act of 1966 and the Motor vehicle information and cost savings act of 1972.
Book Synopsis A Subject Bibliography from Highway Safety Literature by : United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Download or read book A Subject Bibliography from Highway Safety Literature written by United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Occupant Protection and Automobile Safety in the U.S. since 1900 by : Roger F Wells
Download or read book Occupant Protection and Automobile Safety in the U.S. since 1900 written by Roger F Wells and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical review of safety features appearing on passenger cars that have been produced for sale in the U.S. from 1900 to the present. A main theme throughout is the impact the automobile has made on society, with particular emphasis on accidents and loss of life. Another theme is the technological advances that have contributed to safer driving. Even though the author details the technical details of the major safety-related components of automobiles, the book is written for anyone with an interest in the workings of motor vehicles. Topics include: events driving the implementation of specific safety features government involvement and legislative actions effects of mandated and non-mandated implementation effects of safety technologies on annual passenger deaths technical details of specific innovations development of crash protection testing standards Each of the five chapters covers a different period in the evolution of passenger cars. They include detailed descriptions of technologies and advancements that have directly contributed to the production, operation, and crash-survivability improvements made to automobiles. Also included are commentaries relating to influences of political and industry-driven initiatives, consumer reactions, and apparent effects of these influences on annual fatality rates.
Book Synopsis Car Safety Wars by : Michael R. Lemov
Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Auto Safety: NHTSA Has Options to Improve the Safety Defect Recall Process by : Susan A. Fleming
Download or read book Auto Safety: NHTSA Has Options to Improve the Safety Defect Recall Process written by Susan A. Fleming and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, auto manufacturers recalled more vehicles than any other year, according to the Nat. Highway Traffic Safety Admin. (NHTSA), the federal oversight authority for vehicle recalls. However, many recalled vehicles are never fixed, posing a risk to vehicle operators, other drivers, and pedestrians. After the recent recalls of Toyota vehicles, Congress raised questions about the auto safety defect recall process, including the sufficiency of NHTSA's oversight authorities and whether vehicle owners are being effectively motivated to comply with recalls. This report reviewed laws and documents and interviewed NHTSA and stakeholders about the (1) extent of NHTSA's role in the recall process, and how its authorities compare to selected federal and foreign agencies that oversee recalls; (2) benefits and challenges of the recall process for NHTSA and manufacturers; and (3) options for improving the recall process. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Book Synopsis Styling Vs. Safety by : Joel W. Eastman
Download or read book Styling Vs. Safety written by Joel W. Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
