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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.
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...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
published 30 November 1965. The Designed-In Dangers of The American Automobile. TIME Magazine just published its list of the “All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books” This is what TIME Magazine said: “Politics and war, science and sports, memoir and biography — there’s a great big world of nonfiction books out there just waiting to be read.
Account of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe.
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. The book led to congressional hearings and automobile safety laws passed in 1966, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
- Ralph Nader
