AMERICAN SUV’S/PICK-UPS
February 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States automobile industry's main lobby group has acknowledged that Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV's) and pick-up trucks (small vans) pose serious dangers to smaller vehicles in collisions, and has promised its members will now develop voluntary standards to boost safety.
In a letter to the Bush administration's top safety regulator, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said that US vehicle manufacturers would adopt designs that would both make cars safer when hit by the larger vehicles, and make SUV's and pick-ups less dangerous to ...
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