Ralph Nader
Consumer advocate, born in 1934, whose Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) charged the car industry with resisting safety design and led to federal auto-safety law.
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self-driving carsinfrastructure
Their wordsThe hype and unsubstantiated hope behind the self-driving car movement continues unabated, distracting from addressing necessities of old “mobilities” such as inadequate public transit and upgrading highway and rail infrastructure.
↗Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions (In the Public Interest column, nader.org)nader.org 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsDon’t expect driverless cars to be taking over anytime in the next few decades.
↗Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions (In the Public Interest column, nader.org)nader.org 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsBut computers fail often; they are often susceptible to hacking—whether by the manufacturers, dealers or deadly actors.
↗Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions (In the Public Interest column, nader.org)nader.org 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsUntil that distant dream by the technocrats when all vehicles are driverless is realized, there may be less safety because of the mix of autonomous and human-operated vehicles.
↗Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions (In the Public Interest column, nader.org)nader.org 4th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsThe driverless car is bursting forth without a legal, ethical and priorities framework.
↗Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions (In the Public Interest column, nader.org)nader.org 5th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsFor over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
↗Unsafe at Any Speed (Grossman, 1965)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsA great problem of contemporary life is how to control the power of economic interests which ignore the harmful effects of their applied science and technology.
↗Unsafe at Any Speed (Grossman, 1965)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsThe automobile tragedy is one of the most serious of these man-made assaults on the human body.
↗Unsafe at Any Speed (Grossman, 1965)archive.org All 3 from this book