Tag: Center for Auto Safety
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Star Safety Ratings, long helpful to car buyers, now languish in the breakdown lane
ByEric Kulisch FairWarning Grade inflation in school makes it difficult to distinguish who is actually achieving in the classroom. The federal government’s vehicle safety rating system suffers the same problem.
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Regulators, automakers urged to warn parents about flawed seats
By Myron Levin FairWarning For decades, safety regulators and the auto industry have known that even in a moderate speed rear-end crash a driver or front seat passenger can slide out of the seat belt and be launched headfirst into the backseat, badly injuring a backseat passenger or being paralyzed or killed himself. Since the…