Automobile safety generalization study

The smvey finding of general correspondence between subjective and objective risks is consistent with a wealth of observational data on automobile safety belt use. Surprisingly, given an apparent conventional wisdom that seat belt use is too low and that all people should always wear their belts, a wide variety of studies yield results which indicate that indeed people do respond, and respond appropriately, to situations with different benefits and costs of seat belt use. 

That same year - 1965 - Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed - charging that the US automobile industry was knowingly selling unnecessarily dangerous cars to an unsuspecting public. General Motors Corporation (CM) hired a detective to shadow Mr Nader, who then sued CM, winning a monetary settlement. Mr Nader invested the proceeds to form the Center for Study of Responsive Law and the consumer safety branch of the environmental movement was born. 

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