Michael R. Lemov

Car Safety Wars

One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781611477450
• ISBN-10: 161147745X
• Artikelnr.: 41904938

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Love and Death
on the Open Road 2. Voices in the Wilderness 3. Just a Congressman from a
Small State 4. Safety Doesn't Sell 5. General Motors Meets Ralph Nader 6. A
Federal Law 7. Dr. Haddon, Detroit and the New Safety Agency 8. Dragon Lady
9. The Birth and Near Death of the Air Bag 10. Elizabeth Dole, State Farm
and How America Got the Air Bag 11. Rough Road for Recalls: Ford Pinto Gas
Tanks to GM Ignition Switches 12. Forcing Technology: Safety Standards in
the New Century Epilogue: A Hard Road to Travel Appendixes A. Summary of
Major Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards B. How to Buy a Safer Car:
Sources, Web sites, Publications List of Interviews Notes Bibliography
About the Author Index