Posts Tagged ‘safety’
Volt and Leaf win top safety honors
The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf nab the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “Top Safety Pick” in the first U.S. crash tests of mainsteam EVs.
“GM and Nissan have demonstrated that you don’t have to sacrifice safety for fuel economy” — IIHS.
Check out the press release and video here:
http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr042611.html
GOOD news on car safety
Some really interesting stories here from GOOD on auto industry efforts to keep us “Safe at Any Speed” — that’s a reference to Ralph Nader’s 1965 assault on the American auto industry.
Clearly, times have changed. In 2010, The Washington Auto Show honored Nader with the Keith Crain/Automotive News Lifetime Achievement Award. And check out these stories for the safety advances we may soon see.
http://www.good.is/post/when-will-you-have-a-car-that-drives-itself/
http://www.good.is/post/safe_at_any_speed/
