Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death, by Michael R. Lemov
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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.
Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death, by Michael R. Lemov- Amazon Sales Rank: #2175492 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.28" h x 1.05" w x 6.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 284 pages
Review We are quick to recognize and commemorate wars that took enormous amounts of human lives through acts of intentional violence from opposing sides. It is unfortunately quite rare to see the same public attention dedicated to campaigns where preserving human life was the only true objective. . . .Car Safety Wars is a comprehensive history of the movement for safer cars over the course of a century. Lemov knows his stuff. . . .Car Safety Wars is prime reading for anyone interested in automobiles and their development, the consumer safety movement, or the mechanisms of democratic government, or for those who are simply curious about the origins of the many auto safety features like seatbelts and airbags that now protect countless lives. . . .The 'car safety war' is certainly a war worth studying, reflecting on, and celebrating. (Huffington Post)[This book] educates and entertains with stories of pitched legislative and regulatory battles between corporate giants and public interest advocates. . . .Lemov is a dogged gumshoe in investigating and interviewing key players in some of the most significant auto safety battles in Congress and the executive branch. . . .His book preserves the chronicle of controversial and lifesaving auto safety battles and those who played a role, both large and small. (Public Citizen News)Michael Lemov has written a remarkable new history of the auto safety wars. (Corporate Crime Reporter)Car Safety Wars is an up to date book that discusses the recent GM ignition switch debacle. . . .Car Safety Wars is highly recommended for [those] . . . with an interest in car safety . . . Lemov’s book is an effective update of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed. (Mercedes-Benz Club of America)This meticulously researched book offers a . . . nuanced and thoughtful historical perspective. . . .What makes Car Safety Wars such a delightful read is Mike’s [Lemov] compelling story-telling. Rather than simply marching through a dry litany of statistics, he captures decade-by-decade the auto safety zeitgeist through a gripping narrative. . . .Lemov makes a compelling case for progressive government in the ongoing campaign to promote auto safety. . . .I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in how public policy evolves over time. . . .Reading the history of auto safety has given me a treasure trove of insight into my own agency. For that, I am extremely grateful to Mike [Lemov] and his fascinating book. (Product Safety Letter)Car Safety Wars is a well-researched and thoroughly documented story of an epic 100-year war to force an unwilling auto industry to incorporate life-saving equipment into its cars and trucks. . . .Car Safety Wars is recommended for anyone interested in gaining historical perspective on the issues surrounding auto design defect litigation. The references to primary sources in each chapter's end notes bolster the credibility of Lemov's assertions. Reading the book and learning about the role that lawyers have played in advancing automotive safety is inspirational. (Trial Magazine)Extraordinarily well written, organized and presented . . . [This book] is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship and expertise on a subject that has become a part of the automotive recall scandals national debate in corporate boardrooms and governmental investigative commissions. No community or academic library should be without Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death for the benefit of academic and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of the automotive industry. (Midwest Book Review)A must-read for all who want to understand the history of motor vehicle safety and the complex roles played by legislators, regulators, safety advocates, and the automobile industry. (Michael Stanton, former CEO, Global Automakers, Washington D.C.)In Car Safety Wars Michael Lemov has done a masterful job of documenting the long and complicated evolution of a critically important public-health effort—the century-long campaign to make motor vehicles safer. As a first-hand participant in and observer of that effort, he brings special insights into its successes and failures. Car Safety Wars is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the history of auto safety in this country. (Ben Kelley, Board Member, Center for Auto Safety; former senior Vice President Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)Lemov's Car Safety Wars is an insider's view of how people have influenced power and policies that make us all safer. Car Safety Wars empowers people to better protect themselves and their loved ones from crash deaths and serious injuries—and to help build a safer America. (Louis V. Lombardo, former research scientist, National Highway Safety Administration, and founder of careforcrashvictims.com)For a lot of reasons Mike Lemov is the right person to write about the tumultuous success story of car safety—counsel to the House committee that crafted the legislation, gifted writer, impressive historian. Record recalls serve as a reminder that auto safety is a continual challenge, and this notable work importantly calls that to attention. (Peter Harkness, Founding Publisher, Governing Magazine, and former Editor, Congressional Quarterly)Car Safety Wars is a concise history of the hundred-year struggle for safer cars and highways, involving at least six presidents, reluctant congresses, a fiercely resisting automobile industry, unsung heroes, and GM detectives. Termed the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the struggle was a major victory for government safety regulation, which may have been undermined recently by a co-opted, overwhelmed federal safety agency and the automobile industry’s cover-up of millions of dangerous cars.
About the Author Michael R. Lemov served as general counsel of the National Commission on Product Safety and Chief Counsel of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House of Representatives Commerce Committee. He is also the author of Peoples Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Read the story about how cars became safer and learn why it's important to know that By John Drabek If you test drive a new car at a nearby dealer, you are likely captivated by how new and shiny it is, and how it comes loaded with safety features. Cars were just as new and shiny in the 1950’s, but little thought was given to auto safety. As a result, many more people were killed and injured in car crashes in those days than are today. If people thought about it all, they probably believed that car crashes were part of the price they had to pay for the fun and convenience of the modern automobile.The advances in car safety were not driven by the automakers. On the contrary, the automakers reluctantly succumbed to the pressure generated by the few courageous Americans who campaigned for better car safety. In Car Safety Wars: One Hundred Years of Technology, Politics, and Death, author Michael Lemov draws on his first-hand experience with car safety regulation, gained as general counsel of the National Commission on Product Safety, and as chief counsel for the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives. His work is thoroughly researched and documented, as was his previous book (People's Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights).Recent events tell us that the job is not yet finished. Much of the damage done by the defective GM ignition switch could have been avoided. The Takata air bag crisis leaves a significant proportion of car owners with an uneasy feeling -- several people have been killed or injured by the airbags they relied on. Understanding how the culture of car safety and the motivations of the participants have evolved over time is crucial to understanding how we can further improve car safety today, since more than 30,000 people still die each year in the US.Although manufacturing has declined in its relative importance in our economy, car safety is one of its success stories. Cars became much safer with very little increase in manufacturing cost, greatly reducing the economic cost of car crashes and saving many from death or disability. Lemov tells a story of success through adaptation, a story that is quite relevant today.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A good book that could have been much better. By Robert N. Palmer I just finished reading the above. It is an excellent review of the legislative and regulatory wars that have evolved and re-evolved around automotive safety. Given I have spent the last 30 years of my practice in the crashworthiness field I found it very interesting and illuminating.I wanted to mention one thing to which I found distressingly absent from the book. Except for a couple pages noting the work of plaintiffs’ trial lawyers (around page 190) and a brief reference to Tab Turner, my good friend out of Arkansas, this work completely overlooked the real push for safety after Joan Claybrook and before the sudden unwanted acceleration issues that arose with Toyota. During that 20 plus year time period it was crashworthiness attorneys who were constantly pushing the envelope for safety, unlocking the doors on the secrets in the automotive industry and constantly urging the car companies (and NHTSA) to manufacture safer vehicles. Whether it is Tab Turner in the Firestone tire/Explorer litigation, Peter Neumann in the CJ5 Jeep rollover cases, Steve Van Gaasbeck in the Takata airbag situation, Larry Baron and the Altima airbag defect that literally was blinding women, Lance Cooper in his Melton case uncovering General Motors’s deception with ignition switches cases, Don Slavik and others in the SUA issues with Toyota and so many other plaintiffs attorneys who have labored at great expensive both in time and money to reveal the truth about automotive safety to the American public and to get justice for their clients, those stories should have received much more acknowledgment in this otherwise excellent book.A whole chapter of this book could have also been devoted to the NHTSA administrators who left government work to take employment immediately with car manufactures or have become experts for the manufactures or for law firm who represent car manufacturers and therefore were in cahoots with the automobile industry to make sure that NHTSA did nothing to improve the safety of our vehicles. That in and of itself is one of the greatest scandals of the NHTSA and its failure to keep us all safe.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a book which is highly recommended for those who want to learn how public policy ... By Ann Segal This is a book which is highly recommended for those who want to learn how public policy is formed. It is a well researched and thoughtful analysis of the steps and players who have led to our current level of auto safety. The author was part of this history and has an inside knowledge of events, which he presents in a very readable form.
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