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Article: Boosting safety; Plan would mandate antilock brakes
- Article from:
- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- March 8, 2002
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The Bush administration has rejected a proposal by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to require automakers
to install systems that would directly measure the inflation of a
vehicle's tires.
The idea was one of the few concrete recommendations to come out
of hearings into the Firestone-Ford controversy over accidents
involving sport-utility vehicles. One of the key elements in the
crashes was said to be underinflated tires.
Tire-inflation measuring systems are costly and are now installed
only a few high-priced vehicles. Auto industry lobbyists opposed the
proposed NHTSA mandate claiming it would cost them -- and consumers -
- about $1 billion annually for the devices.