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Next to its extent and complexity, the present system of motor vehicle regulation is remarkable principally for the lack of evidence of its effectiveness--at least so far as the limited studies of the subject can be said to provide evidence of success or failure. It is part of the folklore of American government--perhaps of modern government generally--that serious and significant government intervention in social processse is invariably accompanied by the development of large bureaucracies and intricate regulatory mechanisms and the only way to avoid the latter is eschew the former. That is to say that active government...
...driving task: if accidents are the fault of drivers, then the individual has some control over his future. The gods of the highway punish only those who behave badly. It is also possible to speculate that this focus of attention on the responsibility of those who purchase and operate motor vehicles has had the further utility of distracting attention from the responsibilities of those who manufacture and sell them. In any event, the traffic safety legislation of 1966 adopted a different perspective, and recently tremendous attention has been paid to the fault of the vehicles themselves not so much...
When and if more is learned of this subject, it will be possible to apply such knowledge to the problem of traffic safety, and, further, to begin looking more closely at the still shrouded subject of homicide and suicide by motor vehicle...
Besides fidgeting through an auto-industry sales dip last year, the Ford Motor Co. had to sweat out a seven-week national strike by the United Automobile Workers. Totting up the toll, the nation's second biggest automaker last week reported 1967 sales of $10.5 billion, down from $12.2 billion in 1966. The earnings picture was even bleaker. With the strike accounting for a fourth-quarter loss of $109.1 million, Ford's overall profits last year skidded from $621 million in 1966 to $84.1 million -a drop...
...really deserves the title "doctor." He started as a physician in Kansas, became dean of the University of Kansas medical school, later rose to chancellor of the university. While serving on Government and private cultural committees, he has been a director of companies as diverse as the Ford Motor Co., McCall Corp. and Hallmark Cards...