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Papers
- Car Safety Ratings (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Provides ratings of safety for cars. Editor's Note - Rollover resistance ratings for SUVs started in 2001. 2-02
- Rollover Safety of Cars - A Timeline (PBS.org)
Provides a history of investigation of rollovers of cars, especially SUVs, and the failure of Congress, the auto industry, and federal administrations to protect the safety of consumers. Visitors sometimes spell as roll over. 2-02
- SUV Safety - Perception vs Reality (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
"The Explorer and other sport utilities are built in such a way that makes them extremely dangerous to cars. In fact, a federal study found that the Explorer is 16 times as likely as the typical family car to kill the other driver in a crash. If you look at the numbers, almost as many people are being killed unnecessarily, additionally, in cars each year by Explorers as died in tire-related crashes of Explorers over the last decade." 2-02
- SUVs - Congress Increases Tax Breaks for Polluting (MSNBC News)
"Supporters including President Bush said the business equipment tax break, which was quadrupled to $100,000 in the $350 billion tax cut bill that narrowly cleared Congress, is good for the economy."
"But critics called it a loophole that unfairly benefits the auto industry and provides an unnecessary perk to business people who do not need, but want to buy the largest, most-polluting and fuel hungry SUVs." 5-03
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