As a traffic safety specialist, this book is a must, this old book needs to be mandatory reading for any person interested in road safety, ralph documented the resistance of car companies to the introduction of safety features, like safety belts, that looks timely today, for example with the lobby that produce a delay in the mandatory fitting of air bags. It was an exceptionally influential book, and led to huge advances first in automobile safety, and then in consumer protection in general. The designedin dangers of the american automobile nader. Ralph nader, american lawyer and consumer advocate who was a fourtime candidate for the u. Its central theme charged car manufacturers of resistance to the introduction of safety features such as seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. Car buffs may not approve of this assessment, but ralph naders unsafe at any speed is one of the most important automotive books ever written if you are a student of the automobile, unsafe at any speed is required reading.
Ralph nader discusses his book, to the ramparts, at politics and prose on 92318. As a result of his efforts, cars have more safety features. Published in 1965 unsafe at any speed is the full story of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe, even though the knowledge and technical skill to do so have been in their hands for years. And author jackson katz talks about gender and politics in his very timely book man enough donald trump, hillary clinton, and the politics of. Back in 1965, a young ralph nader wrote an evisceration of the us auto industry. The book focused on the faulty rear suspension system of the general motors corvair, this defect could cause the corvair to skid violently and roll over. Ralph nader on unsafe at any speed internet archive. Ralph talks to shareholder advocate, robert monks about how we are becoming more and more a corporate society.
He wrote a seminal article for the harvard law record titled. General motors hired people to investigate nader, dig up potentially damaging information on him and ruin his career. When ralph nader called cars unsafe at any speed, he turns out to have been rightbut for the wrong reason. Many of his comments were directed at the corvair automobile, which he believed to be.
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Ralph nader talks auto safety on the 50th anniversary of unsafe at any speed, the seminal expose that put safety standards at the forefront of the auto industry. In the first chapter of unsafe at any speed, nader fired a barrage of criticisms at the american automobile industry by stating that the corvair was a onecar accident. The son of lebanese immigrants to the united states, nader was educated at princeton and harvard and first came to prominence in 1965 with the publication. Nader talks car safety on 50th anniversary of unsafe at. What groups of people are most likely to view ralph nader in a positive light. Read cnn s ralph nader fast facts and learn more about the life of the consumer advocate and former candidate for president. The crusading attorney first made headlines in 1965 with his book unsafe at any speed, a scathing indictment that lambasted the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles. Buy unsafe at any speed the designed dangers cover torn by nader, ralph isbn. Today, even some critics of ralph naders 1965 book acknowledge its impact on the auto industry and safety. The federal government gets involved in auto safety. The designedin dangers of the american automobile by ralph nader, published in 1965, is a landmark book for consumer auto safety which accused car manufacturers of resistance to the introduction of safety features such as seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. Arrow video criterion doctor who game of thrones harry potter outlander star wars.
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