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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Car Safety Wars
Author: Michael R. LemovPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
Annual Distribution of State and Local Fiscal Assistance Funds Provided in H.R. 13367 as Reported by the House Government Operations Committee
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
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Category : Revenue sharing
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Wilcoxson and Allied Families
Author: Dorothy Ford WulfeckPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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"Elizabeth Willcockson was granted administration of the estate of George Willcockson, 25 Oct., 1739, Chester Co., Penn[sylvania] ... there is no proof of the relationship of Elizabeth to George Willcockson" although some say she was his wife, and the daughter of Roland Powell of New Jersey.
The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations
Author: Frederick MarryatPublisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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A Guide to Products and Services
Author: National Earthquake Information CenterPublisher:
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Category : Seismology
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Epidemics in Colonial America
Author: John DuffyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804616645
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Capital Losses
Author: James M. GoodePublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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No Accident
Author: Neil ArasonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554589657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.
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