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the invisible reason your toaster doesn't try to kill you.
means the field of laws, standards, and testing that keeps products from injuring the people who buy them.
from grew teeth in the 1960s and 70s after crusaders like ralph nader exposed carmakers ignoring known death traps, spawning agencies like the cpsc and nhtsa.
nader's bookunsafe at any speed sparked seatbelt laws
recalls yearlycpsc recalls roughly 300 products a year
crash dummiesoriginally tested with actual human cadavers