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Car safety wars [electronic resource] : one hundred years of technology, politics, and death / Michael R. Lemov

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Lemov, Michael R., 1935-
Published
Madison, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
Physical Description
xvi, 255 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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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ISBN
9781611477450 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611477467 (electronic)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
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