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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.
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
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.
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.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
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Nader, Ralph, Unsafe at any speed; the designed-in dangers of the American automobile; Ogden, K. W., 1996 SAFER ROADS, A guide to road safety engineering. Ashgate Publishing Limited. OECD Road Transport Research: Outlook 2000. CHAPTER V: ROAD SAFETY, (1997 ) Table V.1 Page. 17 ; OECD Economic Evaluation of Road Safety Measures (2000).