Car Safety Wars
One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death
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 pu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61147-745-0
- EAN: 9781611477450
- Produktnummer: 17329820
- Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 593 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 593
Über den Autor
Michael R. Lemov served as general counsel of the National Commission on Product Safety and Chief Counsel of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House of Representatives Commerce Committee. He is also the author of Peoples Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011).
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