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It’s hard to imagine a world without seatbelts or airbags. But five decades ago, it was the norm for car manufacturers to put glamour over safety.
“It was stylistic pornography over engineering integrity,” Ralph Nader, prolific consumer advocate and several-time presidential candidate, tells Science Friday.
This winter marks the 55th anniversary of Nader’s groundbreaking investigation, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” a damning look at how little auto safety technology was in vehicles back in the 1960s. The book had a massive effect on auto safety in the U.S., setting the groundwork for laws about seatbelts, and the creation of the United States Department of Transportation.
Nader joins Ira to discuss what’s happened over 55 years of auto safety advances, and what kind of work is needed to make sure new technology, like self-driving cars, have the safety checks they need before going out on the roads.
If you think Ralph Nader would be fading away quietly of advanced age, 55 years after Unsafe at Any Speed, you would be wrong, especially after listening to this interview.
For more information see the DEC Intactive Landfill Report.
Interactive map and downloadable KML file of closed solid waste landfills in New York State.
Data Source: https://gisservices.dec.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/dil_permits_and_regs/MapServer/12
For more information see the DEC Intactive Landfill July 2022 Status Update and DEC Intactive Landfill Report from May 2021.
Watching the day draw to a close as night approaches from the Overlook Mountain Firetower. A quiet but serine evening.
Taken on Wednesday December 19, 2012 at Overlook Mountain.