NHTSA’s Passive Restraints (Airbags) Standards

NHTSA’s Passive Restraints (Airbags) Standards

NHTSA’s passive restraint standard requires all passenger cars to provide passive protection (Read: airbags) to all front seat occupants.

Cry Wolf Quotes

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.

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Letter sent to the Office of Management and Budget by General Motors.

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