Summary The first programme of the three-part series on car development looks at the severely chequered history of car safety. How in 1956 a seat belt campaign in the US was scrapped because the hugely influential General Motors feared damage to car sales, how the revolutionary British Mini was, in its original design, accused of being a death trap and why the airbag, the great safety device of the 90s, is now being switched off by US motorists.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Robert McNamara Sean Barrett Ralph Nader John Paul Stapp
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Jan 12, 1998
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : Darlow Smithson Productions
Summary The first programme of the three-part series on car development looks at the severely chequered history of car safety. How in 1956 a seat belt campaign in the US was scrapped because the hugely influential General Motors feared damage to car sales, how the revolutionary British Mini was, in its original design, accused of being a death trap and why the airbag, the great safety device of the 90s, is now being switched off by US motorists.
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Jan 12, 1998
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : Darlow Smithson Productions
