Auto Safety Evidence

Blind Spot: The Big Three's Attack on the Global Warming Treaty

07/29/2011

Environmental Working Group. 1997.

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Industry Opposition to Government Regulation

10/01/2010

Pew Environmental Group. October 2010. 

“Industry Opposition to Government Regulation” provides a nice chart comparing the real price tags of environmental, safety, and health regulations to industry’s original estimation of their costs. Very clear, very succinct.

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Mandatory Seatbelt Laws Work

01/01/2010

Advocates for Highway Safety. January 2010. 

"Buckling Up" is a factsheet devoted to showing us the effectiveness of seatbelts: lap-to-shoulder seatbelts reduced the fatal injury risk in passenger car accidents by 45 percent, and in light truck accidents by 60 percent. In 2008,  it is estimated that seatbelts saved the lives of 13,250 people older than four, and if everyone involved in a fatal crash had been wearing a seatbelt, a further 4,152 lives could have been saved.

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Not Too Costly, After All

02/01/2004

Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc. Public Citizen. February 2004.

“Not Too Costly, After All” shows that regulators regularly overestimate the costs of their own regulations. “Regulatory agencies often overestimate the cost of regulatory compliance, sometimes substantially. There are dozens of examples of costs being inflated and the potential for innovation and productivity-enhancing activities ignored.”

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Experts Claim the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) Saves Lives and Money

07/01/1994

Clarence Ditlow and Joan Claybrook. Testimony before Congress. July 1994.

"Criticism Run Amok" claims that soon-to-be Justice Stephen Breyer had been unjustly critical of the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA). The authors argue that the NHTSA has “saved hundreds of thousands of lives and untold billions of dollars”.

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