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The Unregulated American Auto Industry

Back in the 60s, the American auto industry was like the last great unregulated industry in the entire country. Ralph Nader had a book called Unsafe at Any Speed that was a big hit. So everyone said, we should probably just let the auto industry decide what's best for it and us,. Its consumers because we don't want to mess with them.

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