Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NHTSA rescinded a Carter Administration rule requiring Detroit to install either automatic seat belts or air bags on all 1984 model cars. The Reagan Administration had argued that motorists would detach the automatic belts, rendering the rule ineffective. The U.S. Supreme Court found this reasoning capricious, possibly because it did not apply to the air-bag option, and NHTSA is now groping for a better reason to oppose the rule...
Other cities are now evaluating the San Francisco model. Seattle is considering adopting a similar plan. Officials in Santa Monica, Calif., where a moratorium on new construction was imposed for six months in 1981, forced one builder with plans for a $150 million shoppmg-office-hotel complex to agree to a package of concessions. They include construction of 100 low-cost housing units, a child-care center and a 3½-acre park, plus a $2.25 million contribution over 20 years to a city cultural fund...
When they were introduced in April 1979, General Motors' X-model autos made a huge hit with buyers. By the end of the first model year, 1.1 million of the economical front-wheel-drive cars were sold under the names Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The X-cars, however, turned out to be less a salesman's dream than a mechanic's nightmare. Since they initially appeared in showrooms, they have been subjected to ten recalls, involving 967,603 vehicles (some were recalled more than once) for defects ranging from faulty fuel-tank...
...been more dangerously problem-prone than the rear brakes, and last week the Government took extraordinary steps to force GM to fix them. The Justice Department filed a $4 million lawsuit demanding that the company recall all 1.1 million X-cars made in 1980, the first model year. Moreover, the department accused GM of endangering its customers by covering up the car's defects. The suit charges that GM failed to notify properly either the Government or car owners about the problems and that the company lied when asked about them...
...suit, the Justice Department contends that GM knew about the brake problem in 1978, when the car was in the prototype stage, and that although GM changed the brakes in subsequent models, it made no attempt to warn owners during the 1980 model year. In addition, the suit charges that GM gave "false and misleading responses in at least 18 instances" after N.H.T.S.A. began its Investigation. Examples: GM said it received fewer complaints than it actually had, falsely claimed that it made no written analysis of the problem and denied that it had changed the brake design...