<VV> A waste of time...

[shortle]

Naders book (Unsafe at any speed) had only 1 chapter about the Corvair titled The Sporty Corvair. The rest of the book seemed to be an indictment on industrialization. I am certainly not a Nader Raider but we do have him to thank for the last 3 years of Corvair production as orders had come down from above to stop producing the Corvair in '66. And then his book came out. The NHTSA (national highway traffic safety admin.) was a product of his book. One of the only government agencies that seems to work as intended. But he won't get my vote!
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 

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>From: Secular <rusecular at yahoo.com>
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>  It's said that [Ralph] Nader had no toys as a child, because his mother thought 
>  toys were "a waste of time". 
>
>  In grade school, Nader had few friends, but one of them, David Halberstam, became 
>  a noted author, and won a Pulitzer Prize. At Princeton, Nader was a straight-A student 
>  who, in his spare time, organized an anti-DDT activist group. 
>
>  Once, leaving the Princeton campus for summer break in his 1949 Studebaker, Nader 
>  slammed on the brakes just in time to avoid the jaywalking Albert Einstein. 
>
>  He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in politics, writing a thesis 
>  on Lebanese Agriculture...
>
>  ...Nader's book focused mostly on the Chevrolet Corvair, but many of the problems 
>  detailed were applicable in every auto showroom and highway smash-up. 
>  The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and 
>  Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. And since then, everything that adds the 
>  word "safety" to the word "automotive" -- seat belts, air bags, even the 
>  idea of manufacturers' recalls, or requiring crash tests -- can be traced 
>  to that act of Congress, and to Nader's book...
>
>  source:
>
>  http://www.nndb.com/people/788/000023719/
>
>
>  Tony I. 
>
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