NHTSA Oversight: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on Oversight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, September 13, 1983 |
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Page 84 - Humpty Dumpty: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. So
Page 81 - is: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. in
Page 53 - We wouldn't have the kinds of safety built into automobiles that we have had unless there had been a federal law. We wouldn't have had the fuel economy unless there had been a federal law, and there wouldn't have been the emission control unless there had been a federal law.
Page 1 - statutes, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, the Highway Safety Act of 1966, and the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Saving Act of 1972. Under
Page 74 - for the opportunity to present this testimony. I would be pleased to answer whatever questions you, or other Members of the
Page 48 - would be to require the installation of airbags. At the very least this alternative way of achieving the objectives of the Act should have been addressed and adequate reasons given for its abandonment. But the agency not only did not require compliance
Page 48 - Given the effectiveness ascribed to airbag technology by the agency, the mandate of the Safety Act to achieve traffic safety would suggest that the logical response to the
Page 3 - For nearly a decade, the automobile industry waged the regulatory equivalent of war against the airbag and lost.
Page 94 - Chairman, Surface Transportation Subcommittee, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, US Senate, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
Page 45 - to testify today. My name is Joan Claybrook, and I am president of Public Citizen, a national