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By tk *Contractor readies for South Beach sanding project *Jasper port hearing date a moving target *Georgia coast eyed as future water supply for Atlanta *Durango paper mill sought for fuel plant *Corps of Engineers to fix new boat ramp *Rules on ’incidental taking’ of manatees relaxed *PANACEA BLUE CRAB FESTIVAL All hail a gulf delicacy, a way of life http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment062800a.html The New Republic later went so far as to dub him "Saint Ralph." There's one problem with this little morality tale of the activist David vs. the corporate Goliath: David's data were false. Seven years after the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, a definitive study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — the very agency Nader's book conjured into existence — concluded, in July 1972, that contrary to Nader's charges, the '60-'63 Chevrolet Corvair models were at least as safe as comparable models of other cars sold in the same period. The study also found, after extensive tests of the '63 Corvair and five other compact cars of various makes, that Corvair's handling in sharp turns was no more dangerous that that of other cars and did not result in abnormal potential loss of control. NHTSA concluded that the available accident data indicated that the rollover rate of the '60-63 Corvair was comparable to those of other light domestic cars.
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