Word: haddon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standards, which will affect 1968 model cars, were developed from a preliminary list of 23 safety requirements issued by the safety agency chief, Dr. William Haddon Jr., early last December. At that time, Haddon invited the automakers' written comments-and got some public blasts as well. The rules, said Henry Ford, were "unreasonable, arbitrary and technically not feasible," and might even force some plants to close down. For most of last month, Detroit's experts argued their case in Haddon's Washington office. Even the State Department, sensitive to foreign charges that the standards would merely...
...useful starting point and a warning to Detroit that the agency meant business. But, as the negotiations went along, the automakers saw welcome signs that the agency was in no mood to go all the way with the industry's most excessive critics, either. One of Haddon's top engineering consultants, William I. Stieglitz, formerly Republic Aviation's safety-design chief, had argued so bitterly against any compromise that he began to be excluded from the sessions. Stieglitz noisily resigned last week, declaring the standards "totally inadequate" and asserting-correctly-that "my opinion was not asked...
Fifth-Percentile Women. Still, the revised standards will be incorporated in most U.S. 1968 models when they come out next fall. For the most part, changes from Haddon's original list (TIME, Dec. 9) were designed to meet engineering or economic practicalities. Under one preliminary requirement, for example, front-seat occupants were to have had across-the-chest shoulder harnesses along with the lap belts that all forward-facing passengers must have. Now convertibles will not have to have harnesses, since they lack the high doorposts necessary for attachment...
...Safety Front. Another complication for the automakers is that they will be hit on Jan. 31 with the first set of federal safety standards, which will be mandatory for all 1968 models. Manufacturers last week notified National Traffic Safety Agency Administrator Dr. William Haddon Jr. that they would be unable to meet several requirements unless they are modified. Among the standards troubling some companies...
...Haddon's 23 rules were neatly divided into preaccident, accident and post-accident categories...