Excerpt from Aviation Product Liability; The Effect on Technology Application: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, October 22, 1985 A fourth area which is of particular importance is that the introduction of new or improved safety devices or equipment should not be admissable in court as evidence of an inherent defect in an earlier version of a product. Currently, in many states, safety improvements can be admitted as evidence against a manu facturer, creating a powerful incentive not to make such improvements in order to avoid the prospect of litigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.