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Fatal exit : the automotive black box debate / Thomas M. Kowalick.
Lippincott Library HF5614.2 .K69 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kowalick, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traffic accidents--Research--United States--Equipment and supplies.
- Traffic accidents.
- Automobiles--Collision damage--United States--Statistics.
- Automobiles.
- Automobiles--United States--Safety measures.
- Automobile industry and trade--United States.
- Automobile industry and trade.
- Industrial safety.
- Automobiles--Collision damage.
- Statistics.
- Traffic accidents--Research.
- Equipment and supplies.
- United States.
- Privacy, Right of--United States.
- Privacy, Right of.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2005]
- Summary:
- In the United States 220,935,000 registered owners of motor vehicles are becoming aware of black box technology through newspaper and magazine articles, and television news stories. Many understand that these boxes already exist in 40 million cars. Yet motorists still have many questions and concerns about widespread use of the technology. As the only book of its kind, written by an insider and expert on the subject, FATAL EXIT provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in why these devices have caused such international controversy.
- Contents:
- I Symptoms of a Problem
- 1 Question Everything 1
- 2 Nothing Happens for the First Time: 1969-1998 19
- 3 Shifting Gears: April 1998-September 2002 37
- II Safety Debate
- 4 NHTSA Call for Comments: October 2002 59
- 5 Things Are Further Away in the Dark: December 2002 77
- 6 Blowin' the Horn: January 2003 89
- III Societal Issues
- 7 Cruise Control: February 2003 119
- 8 Turn Signals: February to March 2003 159
- 9 Speed Bumps: March to November 2003 191
- 10 Legal and Privacy Issues: 1999-2004 247
- 11 Pros and Cons and Customers of Safety Data and NHTSA Rulemaking 329
- 12 The Road Ahead: Automotive's Second Century 373
- Standards 405.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-469) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0471698075
- OCLC:
- 56539091
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