Title Car safety wars : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death / Michael R. Lemov.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
Contents	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.
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Subject	Automobiles -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Automobiles -- Safety regulations -- United States.
	Automobiles -- United States -- Safety measures.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
	Automobiles -- Law and legislation
	Automobiles -- Safety measures
	Automobiles -- Safety regulations
	United States
Other Form:	Print version: Car safety wars. Madison, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; [2015] 9781611477450 (DLC) 2015005602
ISBN	9781611477467 (ebook)
	1611477468
	9781611477450 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	161147745X