“‘People of conscience inside the industry, they take their conscience to work. They’re up against the bean counters, the shut-up-and-work conformists, the bureaucrats,’ he said. Those people see a problem and then, after bumping against walls of co-workers and leaders who don’t want to listen or change, they take the issue outside, he said.
‘Some of them break through. They go to the media, they go to citizen groups, the publicity expands, more information spills out. The publicity hits the 60 Minutes level, and it gets the ear and the eye of the legislators and the regulators and the litigators.’
That’s the sequence every time, he said. And after all of that, reform takes place.”
— Ralph Nader quoted by Sharon Silke Carty, Automotive News
RE:SOURCES
- Carty, Sharon Silke; 2016. “Safety ‘shenanigans’ must be addressed, Nader says.” Automotive News (subscription required). Posted July 24; accessed August 2.
