Talk:Unsafe at Any Speed
Add topicLatest comment: 27 days ago by Jeffrey34555 in topic Requested move 9 July 2026
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 | On 9 July 2026, it was proposed that this article be moved from Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile to Unsafe at Any Speed. The result of the discussion was moved. |
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[edit]- This 1965 book made the author famous nationwide. It claimed that the Chevrolet Corvair, an air-cooled rear-engine rear wheel drive car, was totally unsafe, even while parked! This is either an exaggeration, or a lie. Like the VW Beetle, the links on the rear wheels would not prevent a rear wheel from folding inward under extreme conditions. The publicity later caused GM to correct this problem.
I suggest that a pre-requisite to work in this article is to have read the book !! Milton 13:20, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Requested move 9 July 2026
[edit]- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 01:02, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile → Unsafe at Any Speed – The book's subtitle is somewhat verbose (cf. The Social Contract), and makes the article title longer than it needs to be. Simply referring to the book as "Unsafe at Any Speed" is both common and sufficiently uniquely identifying. KleinerPanzer1 (talk) 00:41, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support, undoing an undiscussed move from 2023. 162 etc. (talk) 03:30, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:52, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- Support this is the vernacular name for the book, and the title is currently unwieldy Oblivy (talk) 06:06, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.