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NHTSA Moves to Implement
NRC Proposal On Consumer Automotive Safety Information
Last year a Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the NRC
issued a report titled Shopping for Safety (National Academy Press,
1996) which argued that car buyers should be given clear summary information
on the safety of all new vehicles based on a combination of empirical
evidence and expert judgment. EPP department head, Granger Morgan
(EPP/ECE/Heinz), chaired the study panel. Other members included
Ann Bostrom and David Pittle, both of whom were once affiliated with
the department. The Committee argued that if good information
is provided, over time, pressures in the market place can be expected
to force manufacturers to produce significantly safer cars. It
proposed a three level information program involving safety labels on
new cars, a more detailed safety brochure in the glove box, and a safety
handbook, available in libraries, and on the Internet, which would give
full details and comparative information. Because, any summary measure
of safety that can be provided today will be somewhat limited, the Committee
argued that it should be combined with an ongoing program of research
which has the dual objective of producing better safety information
for consumers while producing better knowledge to allow continuing improvement
in the safety of vehicles.
In a Federal Register notice issued last summer,
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicated their intention
to move to implement most of the recommendations of the com-mittee's
report. The comment period is now closed. A series of public
hearings on the NHTSA proposal is being planned.
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Arnett on Risk of War -
continued from pg. 9
In
south Asia, the book argues that India's plan to double its budget for
military research and development during the current five-year plan is
likely to harm the country's security by distorting national science priorities
and reducing the combat capability of the armed forces to an extent that
might provoke greater reliance on ballistic missiles.
Iran's efforts to prepare a conventional defense against
Iraq are not only necessary in their own right, it is argued, but contribute
to stability in the region by encouraging the profes-sionalization of
the armed forces and competing with programs that might threaten other
Arab states or Israel. Threats to attack sites associated with Iran's
civilian nuclear program may provoke a stronger emphasis on deterrence
in Iranian military doctrine, a development that could lead Iran's paramilitary
forces to spend more money needlessly and deploy weapons that could be
seen as destabilizing.
Arms-control and confidence-building initiatives
launched by Iran in hopes of undermining support for the role played by
the US in the Gulf region are unlikely to achieve that aim, it is argued,
but nevertheless constitute a much more productive approach to Iran's
security concerns than preparing for a maritime campaign in the Gulf.
These include special visits to nuclear sites and a decision not to acquire
missiles capable of striking Israel.
Other recent writings by Arnett and his colleagues
at SIPRI can be found at http://www.sipri.se/pubs/pressre/abbk2.html.
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