John Kerry: “I want to see if the Senator is aware of this finding. This is Public Citizen: The industry's primary support for its…”

“I want to see if the Senator is aware of this finding. This is Public Citizen: The industry's primary support for its position comes from a highly controverted study by the National Academy of Sciences, which, in turn, based its conclusions on research by Charles Kahane of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The data used in the study are from 1993 and, therefore, fails to reflect advances in passenger protection, such as dual airbags and head injury protection. The study misleadingly held crashworthiness protection constant, despite the fact that many lives could be saved by design changes and cost-effective safety improvements.”