Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States - Couverture rigide

Vinsel, Lee

 
9781421429656: Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States
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ISBN 10 : 1421429659 ISBN 13 : 9781421429656
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States.

Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not hindered technological change. Rather, by drawing together communities of scientific and technical experts, auto regulations have actually fostered innovation.

Vinsel tracks the history of American auto regulation from the era of horseless carriages and the first, faltering efforts to establish speed limits in cities to recent experiments with self-driving cars. He examines how the government has tried to address car-related problems, from accidents to air pollution, and demonstrates that automotive safety, emissions, and fuel economy have all improved massively over time. Touching on fuel economy standards, the rise of traffic laws, the birth of drivers' education classes, and the science of distraction, he also describes how the government's changing activities have reshaped the automobile and its drivers, as well as the country's entire system of roadways and supporting technologies, including traffic lights and gas pumps.

Moving Violations examines how policymakers, elected officials, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and other interested parties wrestled to control the negative aspects of American car culture while attempting to preserve what they saw as its positive contributions to society. Written in a clear, approachable, and jargon-free voice, Moving Violations will appeal to makers and analysts of policy, historians of science, technology, business, and the environment, and any readers interested in the history of cars and government.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lee Vinsel is an assistant professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421429659
ISBN 13 
9781421429656
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
424
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