Was just listening to the radio while cleaning up around the house, and caught the tail end of Diane Rehm interviewing Joan Claybrook. Apparently she's stepped down as the president of Public Citizen, although several of the callers' questions centered around CAFE and auto safety standards. I don't think I want to listen to it again, but here it is, if you want to see just how out of touch some people are with the realities of engineering and automotive design:
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Unfortunately Ms. Rehm was more sympathetic than hard-hitting; apparently this is Joan Claybrook's appeal, that she makes the public think that all the bad automotive things that have happened to them are the fault of the evil automakers and not due to choices consumers have made, and on an emotional level that definitely resonates.nate