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USA TODAY opinion piece, U.S. Traffic Safety Misleads the Public: As GM ignition case shows, technology is emphasized over driver behavior, Sept.2014

AJPH Editorial 20,000  more Americans killed annually because US traffic-safety policy rejects science. Aug. 2014

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   AIRBAGS

The following three chapters of 2004 book Traffic Safety provide extensive coverage of airbags:

Chapter 11  Occupant protection

Chapter 12  Airbag benefits, airbag costs

Chapter 15  The dramatic failure of US safety policy

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  Items below provided source material for the  comprehensive treatment in of airbags in  Traffic Safety

 

Airbag benefits, airbag costs. SAE paper March 2004 (much more in Chapter 12 of Traffic Safety, including material removed by the review process).

Make air bags a choice. Letter to the Editor,  New York Times, 1 Sept. 2003.

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Photo of Ralph Nader with airbag “safely” deploying into three-year old girl’s face  (this picture on page 391 of of Traffic Safety).

How to disconnect an airbag (This article, from the April 1998 issue of Car and Driver is provided, without any recommendations, for your information only.  The file is 2.3 MB