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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Required Reading for Consumers!, January 25, 1999
By A Customer
This is one of the best books you will ever read as a consumer or environmentalist. You will love the way Nader brings to shame the Automotive Industries of the 50s and 60s on the issues of saftey and health (which should be the most important, duh!). His persuasive skill to make logic so obvious is fantasic.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must for persons interested in Road Safety, May 28, 2002
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. Also you will learn how the primitive road safety components, still used in USA, called the three E's (Engineering, Enforcement, Education ) was born as a device to direct the efforts to the community away from the real problems of safety of the vehicles, some of the that was sell with tires that don't resist the weight of the fully loaded vehicle !.Finally you can understand the lacking level of road safety in US versus European countries that have in service safety policies that will reduce the absolute number of killed by 30% over 5 years. This book is the necessary building stone to the effort to make car manufacturers accountable for the safety level of his products.
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ralph actually liked the Corvair!, July 30, 2003
I have just a quick story that might amuse Nader fans. In the mid eighties I was working at Oberlin College in Ohio, where I believe Ralph Nader's son was going to school. At lunchtime when I arrived at my car (a '67 Corvair) 2 men in suits were standing in front of it and in a deep discussion concerning it. Mr. Nader introduced himself, which then took a minute to sink in, and we briefly discussed the demise of my car's production. He explained that the "fatal" flaws with the Corvair had been rectified for my updated model that was introduced in '65. The main faults, as the book clearly explains, were the one piece steering column which impaled the driver in head on collisions (today they are collapsable thanks to him), and the rear suspension swing arm arrangement which caused the rear wheel to tuck under the chassis in hard cornering which causes a catastrophic roll over. He told me that he really liked the later Corvairs. Then he joked that he wishes he had bought eight of them back when you couldn't give one away because now he could sell them for a fortune. I didn't burst his bubble...Corvairs are still a bargain collectable. And the early ones are STILL unsafe at any speed.
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