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The Dispatcher December 2017 Volume 5, Issue 2 The Dispatcher In this issue: Telematics Industry Insights by Michael L. Sena When Accidents Weren’t When Accidents Weren’t the Drivers’ Fault the Drivers’ Fault 1-3 HOW MANY TIMES during the past week have you heard or read that The Nader effect Dispatch Central 95% of all vehicular accidents are the result of the drivers and only GM Abandons Lyft Dispatch Central 1-2 5% are caused by some fault with the car or truck? If only we could “O, swear not by the moon, the GM Abandons Lyft remove the driver from the equation, we would save a million lives fickle moon, the inconstant moon, Mark Fields’ New Job per year globally. Whether it’s 95% or 90% or 80% of the acci- that monthly changes in her circle Tesla keeps losing money dents that are cause by driver error matters little. Motorized vehi- orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise cles are a lot safer today than they were in 1965 when the book, variable.” Bob Lutz on the future of William Shakespeare the automobile Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the Amer- Romeo and Juliet Ford’s Stay Awake Hat ican Automobile by Ralph Nader, was published. The book ac- Lyft only has itself to blame cused car manufacturers of resisting the introduction of safety fea- Mediamobile 3 if the relationship with GM is Safety Related Content tures and their general reluctance to spend money on improving cooling off as reported. GM safety. invested $500 million in Lyft Hydrogen Fuel Cell Pow- for 9% of the company and a ered Vehicles 4 board seat. Dan Ammann, Are they the answer or a GM’s president, said that diversion? when they made the invest- Has DSRC Reached the ment, “a key goal was to cre- End of the Road? 5 ate an autonomous, on-de- mand vehicle network.” The Not the WAVE of the fu- idea was that GM, its Cruise ture division and Lyft would work Eye in the Sky 5 together. It was never meant to be exclusive, said both Traffic UAVs companies, but it seems that Musings 6 when Lyft invited Ford into A Friendly Wave Nader’s 1965 book focused on the Chevrolet Corvair, which three its living room, that was just years earlier became notorious as the car in which Ernie Kovacs one too many suitors for GM. died. Kovacs was, at the time, one of the more popular TV enter- tainers in the U.S. He was married to Edie Adams, an equally Greener Pastures: Fields talented and popular actress and entertainer. The pair were on Finds New Home their way home from a Hollywood party—it was actually a baby Ford replaced ‘car guy’ Mark shower for Billy Wilder’s newly adopted child—Kovacs in his Cor- Fields with ‘furniture guy’ Jim vair station wagon, and Adams following in their chauffeur-driven Hackett’ in May of this year. Rolls-Royce. Accident reports state that Kovacs turned onto The jury is still out on this exchange, but Fields has Santa Monica Boulevard travelling at low speed, but made a sharp moved on. He joined TPG turn when he entered the road. He lost control of the vehicle (pic- Capital, a private equity firm, tured above) and it slid sideways into a light pole. His rib cage was as a senior advisor. He will crushed and his aorta was severed. He died instantly. work with the firm’s industri- als team looking for ways to The Corvair was an oddity at the time it was first sold in 1959. “create change and innova- Gone were the fins and chrome and fighter plane noses. It was tion.” That’s what he was do- ing at Ford when he sat in small with soft lines. It had the lines of a BMW, as I pointed out in front of his boss, Bill Ford, my November 2016 issue of The Dispatcher. However, unlike the who pushed a button and the BMW, the Corvair had a balance problem. Its rear-engine design trap door opened. Good luck, made it heavier in the rear than in the front. In addition, its motor Mark. was too strong in proportion to the car’s size. The major problem was the car’s swing axel suspension, which was prone to tuck un- Continued next page Continued next page Telematics Industry Insights Page 2 of 6 Dispatch Central (cont.) When Accidents Weren’t the Drivers’ Fault: (cont. from p .1) Tesla Tanks in Q3 ner in certain situations, particularly in very evidence that deaths can be prevented by ap- The stock market darling reported a curvy motorway ramps. The more Corvairs plying the science that is well-known to the ve- $671 million loss for the third quar- ter, compared to a $22 million profit that were sold, the more accidents of this type hicle industry. in the same quarter in 2016. It was occurred. By the time the Ernie Kovacs acci- Nader and Unsafe received little attention the company’s largest ever loss for a dent happened, GM had sold 1.1 million of the from the public when the book first came out. quarter. “Totally my fault!” claimed little darlings. Wrongful death suits began to Musk. Well, since you take all the But then GM did what companies should not pour in. GM, as car companies are want to do, credit for everything else, it’s only do: counterattack. It hired private investigators blamed the drivers. The fine print read that tire fair that you didn’t claim your dog ate to look into Nader’s financial and private life in all the profits. “To restore some level pressure in the front should be 12 psi lower hopes of smearing his reputation. According of investor confidence, Tesla needs to than in the rear, rather than being the same produce and sell 5,000 Model 3 units to court reports, Nader discovered the investi- front-to-back or little higher in the front. The per week by the end of the first quar- gation and publicly denounced GM’s tactics, manufacturer also offered an option, which ap- ter of 2018 and achieve this target alleging that the “investigators” had even hired without an increase in cash con- parently was not well advertised, consisting of several young women to lure him (unsuccess- sumption in order to move the stock upgraded springs and dampers, front anti-roll fully) into sexual liaisons.” Nader sued GM for "materially higher," said Morgan bars and rear-axle-rebound straps to prevent Stanley's Adam Jonas in a note to in- harassment, and GM settled the court case for the tuck-under. vestors. Or else what, Adam, your in- $425,000. That money went toward funding vestors will lose their shirts? Tesla’s Enter Nader. He was then, and continues to be the establishment of his consumer rights or- stock price turned up a day later after dropping 4% on the not-so-pretty today at the age of 83, a bull terrier dressed in ganizations for the past fifty-two years. news. a cocker spaniel costume. He has been from GM stopped manufacturing Corvairs in 1969. the time he graduated from Harvard Law It was too late for Ernie Kovacs and all the oth- Lots of Lutz School a tireless consumer advocate and a ers who were killed as a result of the poor “We are approaching the end of the huge pain in the butt for any company or public safety design of the vehicle, but Nader's ad- automotive era,” predicts Bob Lutz. agency that he believes isn’t doing right by “Human driven vehicles will be legis- vocacy of automobile safety and the publicity consumers. A documentary film about him de- lated off the highways in 15-20 generated by the publication of Unsafe at buted in 2006. It was titled An Unreasonable years. Big fleets will own all cars. Any Speed, along with concern over escalat- Dealers will be o.k. for next 10-15 Man. years, but then they will be margin- ing nationwide traffic fatalities, contributed to alized,” says Lutz. I have found there Nader’s book takes on GM and the entire car Congress' unanimous passage of the 1966 is a correlation between peoples’ pre- industry in a methodical manner. He begins National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety dictions and either the number of with all of the Corvair’s problems and then Act.1 The Act established the National High- years until retirement or until they expect not to be around. Lutz is 85. moves to the total lack of safety considerations way Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), He’ll be happily driving his Chevy Volt given to design of interiors, lack of standards and it was claimed that this marked “an his- Aston Martin until they take away the for the placement of gears on automatic gear toric shift in responsibility for automobile keys. Thanks for your parting words, shifts and the fact that the impact of an acci- safety from the consumer to the government.” Bob. I’ll see your 15 and raise you 15. dent on the driver and passengers had been The legislation mandated a series of safety completely ignored, even though there was features for automobiles, beginning with Ford is commemorating sixty years of plenty of good research available at the time. safety belts and stronger windshields. producing trucks in Brazil with a hat Light poles simply pushed their way through for truckers, called SafeCap.
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