Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Legal Reader has published an article on Nader, NHTSA, and Airbags with documentation that illustrates how lives can be saved.
http://www.legalreader.com/a-closer-look-at-nader-nhtsa-airbags/
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
On April 20, 2017, I was crossing the Verrazano Bridge in the afternoon and was shocked to see the Manhattan skyline almost invisibly shrouded in polluted air. This one day after just having published an article about Earth Day and Ralph Nader’s contributions to protecting people from many forms of harm including pollution. See http://www.legalreader.com/powers-of-the-people-on-earth-day-2017/
Nader continues his work of more than 50 years for such governance. Public Citizen, founded by Nader, is working to ensure that “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” does not devolve into government of the people, by, and for the billionaires. See http://corporatecabinet.org/page.cfm?id=78
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Legal Reader has published an article on Powers of the People on Earth Day 2017.
See http://www.legalreader.com/powers-of-the-people-on-earth-day-2017/
I hope you will find these resources helpful.
Lou Lombardo
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
An excellent article with videos has been published on Pedestrian protection that notes the failures by Tesla to offer pedestrian protection in the U.S. that it offers in Europe to meet EU NCAP. See article by Lloyd Alter at http://www.treehugger.com/cars/teslas-sold-europe-have-active-hood-protect-pedestrians-american-pedestrians-look-both-ways.html
The National Safety Council reports that in 2015 in the U.S. there were 6,700 pedestrian deaths and an estimated 160,000 pedestrian nonfatal injuries. See Injury Facts 2017, page 116.
Tesla has received from American taxpayers about $4.9 Billion. See article by Jerry Hirsch at
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
What can be done to make Tesla more responsible to Americans?
“Five institutional investors, including the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs), the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, and CtW Investment Group, have signed a letter to Tesla director Antonio Gracias urging the company to seek board members that are independent of Elon Musk.
In addition to expanding the size of the Tesla board to include two new members that do not have ties with Musk, the group which manages a combined $721 billion in assets – Caslstrs is the second largest pension fund in America – is also advocating for annual elections for all board members. Presently, only one third of the directors are elected each year. Calstrs is one of the founders of Investor Stewardship Group, which includes several other major investors such as BlackRock Inc., State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, and T. Rowe Price Group. In January, that group formulated a new policy position that supports annual elections for all board members as a way of increasing the accountability of directors to shareholders.
The influential group of investors argue that “Directors should be held to a higher standard of independence given the conflicts of interest that permeate this board.”, according to a report by Bloomberg. “A thoroughly independent board would provide a critical check on possible dysfunctional group dynamics, such as groupthink.”
See https://www.teslarati.com/investor-group-urges-tesla-seek-board-members-independent-elon-musk/
As for NHTSA, maybe if we could get images of the children dying of pedestrian injuries in the U.S.A. nearly every day, President Trump and his daughter would be moved to act. NHTSA data shows 233 children under the age of 14 died of their injuries suffered as pedestrians in 2015 due to vehicle violence. See Table 2 at https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812375
Lou Lombardo
Legal Reader has published my review of Ben Kelley’s excellent book on a story that continues to be of life or death or disability importance for all of us.
Too many people are still not aware of the hazard we all face with 63 million defective vehicles still n the roads in the U.S.A. today. Please see
http://www.legalreader.com/death-by-rental-car-how-the-houck-case-changed-the-law/
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
I have been asked by Dr. Mark L.Rosenberg to invite our readers to attend this lecture on May 7, 2007 when Dr. Tingvall will receive an honorary degree.
I urge all who can do so to attend and meet Dr. Tingvall. The invitation is attached.
For a Wikipedia description of the progress of Vision Zero policy adoption around the U.S. and the world see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
I have had the honor, privilege, and pleasure of working on safety issues since the 1980s when I was at NHTSA and Dr. Rosenberg was at CDC. See
https://www.
One landmark report to Congress “Cost of Injury in the U.S., 1989” (out of print) for which we were acknowledged is now available, along with later valuations of injury costs, at https://www.
It is appropriate that Dr. Rosenberg is making this invitation to our readers to meet Dr. Tingvall. The losses due to motor vehicle violence now amount to more than $2 Billion per day in the U.S.A. today as valued by DOT.
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Consumer groups document and protest while officials belly through the Revolving Door as the nation approaches its 4 millionth death and 1 billionth injury due to vehicle violence. See https://www.
Consumer Watchdog releases documents at
http://www.prnewswire.com/
Washington Post that has added to its masthead the words “Democracy Dies in The Dark” reports on comments by former DOT Secretary Foxx and Zoox CEO Tim Kentley-Klay at https://www.washingtonpost.
Note: Americans are suffering and dying in the dark at the rate of more than 100 deaths per day and 400 serious injuries such as paraplegia, burns, amputations, and brain injuries each and every average day in the U.S.A. today from vehicle violence. See https://www.
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NHTSA currently values each vehicle violence death at $9.6 million. Thus the fatality losses alone are estimated by NHTSA to equal about $1 Billion per day.
The NY Times piece by Ditlow and Nader warned about the problems at NHTSA. See https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/opinion/weak-oversight-deadly-cars.html
When will we ever learn?
