[tinwhiskers] A publication of interest
- From: Steve Smith <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:17:24 -0800
Sudden Acceleration - The Myth of Driver Error
James Castelli, Carl Nash, Clarence Ditlow and Michael Pecht
See
http://www.calce.umd.edu/general/published/books/descriptions/sudden.html
where one can read:
In 1965, in hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, General
Motors, Ford and Chrysler admitted that they had known about a number
of serious safety defects in their products in the past. They
typically handled these problems by telling their dealers to repair
the defects when the vehicles were brought in for service, but rarely
if ever reported the defects directly to the car owners. Thus, if
owners did not bring their cars back to their dealers, these defects
would not be repaired and could lead to serious accidents.
Shocked by this revelation, Congress wrote the defect notification
provisions into the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of
1966. Manufacturers also committed to voluntarily recall defective
vehicles for repair at no cost to their owners. Congress also required
that all communications from the manufacturers to their dealers had to
be sent to the government so that the manufacturers could not so
easily conduct secret recall campaigns through their dealer's vehicle.
Some years later, Fiat broke the commitment to repair safety-related
defects, and Congress wrote specific recall requirements into the Act.
This book was written to expose the fact that some auto companies,
including the Ford Motor Company, continue to hide critical safety
related defects in its automobiles from their owners and from the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency responsible
for carrying out the safety act. The subject of this book involves
defects that can cause motor vehicles to suddenly accelerate, often
from a standstill, when the driver is not touching the accelerator
pedal. Ford has not only hidden the defect, it has withheld critical
information from the government, and from courts hearing product
liability lawsuits brought by people severely injured in such cases,
or by survivors of those killed.
ISBN 0-9707174-5-8
CALCE EPSC Press
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
To purchase this book, contact
rjett@xxxxxxx
0101 Campus Drive
Univ. of Md. College Park,
MD 20742-4611
phone: +1 301 314 7846
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