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Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile is a non-fiction book by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, first published in 1965.Its central theme is that car manufacturers resisted the introduction of safety features (such as seat belts), and that they were generally reluctant to spend money on improving safety.
His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed, which criticized the automotive industry for its safety record, helped lead to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966. The son of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, Nader attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, written by Ralph Nader, was published in 1965 and became a best seller.The book was instrumental in the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966.
Over 100 lawsuits were filed against General Motors in response, which resulted in consumer advocate Ralph Nader specifically scrutinizing the Corvair in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed. The negative publicity was compounded by the revelation that GM declined to include suspension upgrades on the 1960–63 model years that would have given ...
Unsafe at Any Speed. Grossman Publishers, 1965. What to Do with Your Bad Car: An Action Manual for Lemon Owners (with Lowell Dodge and Ralf Hotchkiss). Grossman Publishers, 1971. Beware. Law-Arts, Publishers, Inc., 1971. Action for a Change (with Donald Ross, Brett English, and Joseph Highland). Grossman Publishers; Rev. ed., 1972.
At the time Nader wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, it is to be remembered he had neither an automotive engineering degree nor a driver's license. [4] In response to Nader's book, McCahill tried to get a 1963 Corvair to flip, at one point sliding sideways into a street curb, but could not turn over the vehicle.
The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a ...
Nader v. General Motors Corp. (25 N.Y. 2d 560, 1970) was a court case in which author and automobile safety lecturer Ralph Nader claimed that General Motors had "conduct[ed] a campaign of intimidation against him in order to 'suppress plaintiff's criticism of and prevent his disclosure of information' about its products" regarding his book Unsafe at Any Speed.