STEERING LOCKS!
Since 1969 most vehicles have been equipped with
the hazardous steering lock. ASF has liberated the
automobile, and today almost all auto companies offer
vehicles with safe and modern auto theft prevention
technology!
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National
DMV's support
the Automobile Safety Foundation
auto theft prevention effort
by providing the ASF CARD information
in their Driver Handbooks!
  
Tribune Article
Letter from the Department Of California Highway Patrol
Letter from the Office Of Traffic Safety
More Letters and Newspaper Articles of Interest
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Letter from Bill Clinton |
Letter From Ohio Public Safety |
| FACTS
ABOUT STEERING LOCKS |
1. Steering locks
cause harm and death by locking a vehicle's steering while driving.
2. Steering locks, introduced in 1969, are a failed anti-theft device that eliminates
the need for electrical system knowledge to steal a vehicle.
The steering
lock can be defeated in under 60 seconds allowing the engine
then to be started. Auto theft has tripled since 1969!
3. Steering lock
warning and education helps prevent accidents and auto theft.
4.
There are safe and effective anti-theft steering lock alternatives. Both
General Motors and Ford are well underway replacing the steering
lock with modern, safe and effective
auto theft prevention technology. Another steering
lock alternative is the transmission lock which has been in
use by Rolls Royce and SAAB since 1969.
5. Steering locks represent
two major extremely unsafe design errors:
(a)
they are spring loaded, ignoring the fact that springs have built in metal fatigue,
and therefore must eventually malfunction, or wear out. (See
"sudden lockup")
(b) The ignition key that
deactivates the engine, should never have been combined with a device that simultaneously
locks the steering.
6. The steering lock
has no merit whatsoever, and constitutes the most dangerous design error in automotive
history.
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