For at least 100 years, automakers have stuck to a tried and trusted playbook: They’ll kick, scream, and obfuscate before they’re forced by law to fit profit-draining, life-saving technology. From their successful rejection of speed governor proposals in the 1920s, to their shaming by lawyer Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed published in 1965, which inspired the creation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US, auto companies—Volvo excepted—have rarely incorporated safety features willingly.
True to form, a lawsuit filed January 17 by the auto industry’s leading lobbying group seeks to repeal a safety rule
→ Continue reading at WIRED
