Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
The inspirational Karth family petition for action by President Obama has gained more than 1,000 signatures in just a few days! As we recently wrote there are millions of reasons to sign their actionable petition.
Lou Lombardo
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Clarence Ditlow, in an Op-Ed in U.S.A. Today warns us all:“Congress intended that standards would regulate and stimulate new safety technologies. Today’s NHTSA has abandoned the regulatory side for the stimulation side, leaving safety by the wayside. By not issuing safety standards on driverless vehicles, NHTSA creates a safety vacuum that will inevitably lead to consumers dying as unwitting guinea pigs in crashes of unproven driverless vehicles.” See
August, 2016
Forbes has published two excellent articles on heat that readers will appreciate for their life or death importance in this hottest month of the year.
The first is the continuing tragedy of children dying in vehicles without warnings. See
“How hot is too hot?
And when the same part is defective, why do some owners get a recall and others don’t?
Those are two questions owners may have as Ford recalls almost 830,000 vehicles – including almost 767,000 in the United States – because a door could open while the vehicle is moving.
The recall, announced by the automaker Thursday, covers only 16 states Ford considers to have “higher ambient temperatures and solar loading.”
But Ford spokeswoman Elizabeth Weigandt couldn’t say how hot was too hot or how “solar loading” was calculated.” See
Ralph Nader’s Getting Steamed will make you repeat that phrase from the movie Network: “I’m as mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” His compendium of corporate crime, greed, and exploitation of honest people everywhere will raise your temperature—to the boiling point.”
