Keith Bradsher
Author of High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
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Keith Bradsher was the Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times from 1996 to 2001, during which time he won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a Times reporter since 1989. He is currently the paper's Hong Kong bureau chief
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In that sense it's a classic text about corporate deception, putting profits ahead of safety in the full knowledge that they were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of their customers and other road users. Bradsher also describes how systems of Government oversight had been emasculated by politicians at the behest of those same Corporations. It's a familiar theme, both from the tobacco industry and the carbon polluting companies fighting recognition of climate change. That - to some extent - the car industry has begun to do something about some of the worst aspects of SUV design, by improving anti-roll characteristics and lowering the front grills, is testament to the power of public shaming, and the influence of corporate insurers.… (more)