GM urges that the passive restraint requirement be eliminated…There is an immediate need to avoid the sharp economic impediment that these requirements…would place on the domestic car market’s recovery.
From a missive from sent to the Office of Management and Budget by General Motors urging the elimination of the “passive restraint standard” (mandatory airbags), set to become effective in October of 1981. It was postponed and then revoked completely. In June of 1983, the Supreme Court voted 9 to 0 to reissue the regulation. From Public Citizen’s “Risking America’s Health and Safety: George Bush and the Task Force on Regulatory Relief”.
Thursday, January 29, 1981
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