The Struggle for Auto Safety

by David L. Harfst, Jerry L. Mashaw, David L. Harfst

Book Overview

Combining superb investigative reporting with incisive analysis, Jerry Mashaw and David Harfst provide a compelling account of the attempt to regulate auto safety in America. Their penetrating look inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spans two decades and reveals the complexities of regulating risk in a free society. Hoping to stem the tide of rising automobile deaths and injuries, Congress passed the National Traffic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674845307
• ISBN13: 9780674845305
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"