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info4dcs@yahoo.com - 19 Jan 2007 10:03 GMT

Magazine's car seat findings withdrawn
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 18, 6:10 PM ET

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Consumer Reports was forced on Thursday to retract
a damning report on infant car seats after the federal government said
test crashes on the seats were conducted at drastically higher speeds
than the magazine had claimed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_bi_ge/infant_seats

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Brent P - 19 Jan 2007 14:16 GMT

> Magazine's car seat findings withdrawn
> By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 18, 6:10 PM ET
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> test crashes on the seats were conducted at drastically higher speeds
> than the magazine had claimed.

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_bi_ge/infant_seats

What do you mean screw up? This Consumer reports standard test method
when it comes to automotive safety. Their method is to create a test
that results in dramatic failures and then single out the weakest product
for more severe testing and then demand a recall of that product.

Problem this time is that went after a product with a defined test method
for a specific performance criteria so it couldn't weasel the way it did
with the Samurai.

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