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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.
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile excoriated the American automotive industry, based in Detroit, for its prioritization of style and design over consumer safety. Nader’s book eventually became a best seller and helped spur the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, the ...
Nov 26, 2015 · On Nov. 30, 1965, “Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile” was published. The first sentence did not mince words: “For over half a century the automobile has...
Sep 11, 2009 · Unsafe at any speed : the designed-in dangers of the American automobile. by. Nader, Ralph. Publication date. 1965. Topics. Automobiles, Automobiles. Publisher. New York : Grossman.
Already an unpretentious import with a rear, air-cooled engine and independent suspension was “pre-testing” the American market with rising commercial success. But Cole and his associates were not in any mind merely to produce an American stereotype of the Volkswagen.
Nov 30, 2015 · The new laws addressed a wide range of problems from safety codes and vehicle inspection to highway design and driver education.
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile, Volume 10. Ralph Nader. Grossman, 1965 - Technology & Engineering - 365 pages. Account of how and why cars kill, and why...
They had to deal with by far the heaviest rear-engined automobile in the western world, having between 60% and 63% of its weight on the rear wheels. This fact alone posed handling problems considerably in excess of those afflicting the smaller and lighter rear-engined European cars.
