{"id":5447,"date":"2013-10-16T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2013-10-16T05:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:50:25","slug":"auto-eco-system-regulation-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Auto Eco-System Regulation &#038; Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/welcome_page\/?mode=1&#038;shf=%252F2013%252F10%252F15%252F5249247%252Fchange-you-can-believe-in.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the original Ford Mustang was introduced it came with seatbelts, but dealers could delete that feature for a $14 factory credit and many, if not most, did just that. Of course, the dealers\u2019 point was this; their customers didn\u2019t want these safety features, therefore they were simply providing the market with the products that were selling.<\/p>\n<p>The great irony of the marketplace is that, after the government mandated these safety improvements be made to every car, then suddenly the public started demanding even more \u201csafer vehicles.\u201d Here\u2019s the real scorecard on lives saved because federal mandates made this generation of new cars the safest ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wallace: When the original Ford Mustang was introduced it came with seatbelts, but dealers could delete that feature for a $14 factory credit and many, if not most, did just that. Of course, the dealers\u2019 point was this; their customers didn\u2019t want these safety features, therefore they were simply providing the market with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}