Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader wasn't exactly a pal of the auto industry.
Nader, now 82, was a pain-in-the-side safety advocate and wrote the book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which exposed dangers in the Chevrolet Corvair in 1965, writes Michael Martinez of The Detroit News.
On Thursday, the unlikely inductee was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame at Cobo Center alongside such auto giants as former Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally and Roy Lunn, engineer of the Ford GT40, the News reports.
“What’s happened is that they’re now marketing safety; when I started out they said safety doesn’t sell and would have never mentioned the possibility of seat belts,” he tells The News. “They didn’t even want to talk about crashes because it would reduce the fantasy of buying cars. . . . It’s like saying, ‘You were right.’ ”
While Martinez was interviewing Nader at Cobo, this happened:
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger interrupts my interview w/ Ralph Nader to get an autographed copy of "Unsafe at Any Speed" pic.twitter.com/D23SktDrtL
— Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinez_DN) July 21, 2016
