Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety Safety doesn’t sell cars. At least that’s what Detroit executives walked around saying back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The whole of them were convinced that if you even mentioned the word “safety” in a marketing campaign it would imply that cars were unsafe.

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NHTSA announces 2009 fatalities lowest since 1954, continue downward trend