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5 serious safety concerns.(Have You Heard?)
At Consumers Union, we're not shy about sharing our opinions with the federal agencies responsible for product safety. As we enter a new year, we're focusing on some of the dangers that, with enlightened regulatory action, shouldn't be dangers. In some cases, the agencies are already devoting varying amounts of resources to these issues. But we'd like to see decisive action on the following in 2007:
Stability control. In September the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed making electronic stability control (ESC) mandatory on all new light passenger vehicles. Consumers Union has long pushed for that. We believe that ESC is the most important advance in auto safety since the safety belt. ESC can help keep a vehicle out of an accident and could save more than 10,000 lives a year. We applaud NHTSA for taking the first step. Now it needs to move from proposal to regulation.
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Blind zones. We've all driven cars with blind zones. Automakers don't have to comply with any standards for driver visibility. An especially egregious example is the Toyota FJ Cruiser we tested for this month's auto report. Thick roof pillars, short windows, and a slit-like windshield add up to lousy visibility. At the very least, CU supports camera systems that show ...
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