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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMoving Violations is a superb history of automobile regulation in the United States from 1893 to the present, a case study of the relationship between regulation and technological change . . .
Moving Violations will benefit all those with an interest in transportation history, regulatory history, technological history, innovation, and public policy and many others who will find something to savor in the details.
—Louis Cain, Northwestern University,
EH.NetTable of ContentsIntroduction
Part I. Standards
Chapter 1. The Auto World Gets Organized
Chapter 2. Standardization Is the Answer
Part II. Safety
Chapter 3. The Creation of Crashworthiness
Chapter 4. From Movement to Government Agency
Chapter 5. The Limits of Federal Automotive Safety Regulation
Part III. Pollution
Chapter 6. Discovering and (Not) Controlling Automotive Air Pollution
Chapter 7. Command and Control
Chapter 8. Establishing the State of the Art
Part IV. Bureaucracy
Chapter 9. The Bureaucratic Struggle over Fuel Economy
Chapter 10. Deregulation and Its Limits
Chapter 11. Indecision, Regulatory Uncertainty, and the Politics of Partisanship
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
