Silent On Results, Auto Firms Shift Away From TTIP Study They Financed

Auto company lobbyists on either side of the Atlantic appear to have all but abandoned hope that a year-long, industry-financed study will provide sufficient evidence to sway regulators in support of their claim that U.S. and EU auto safety rules are effectively equivalent, and are now pinning their hopes on other research initiatives. Even before releasing the results of the study, carried out jointly by the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute (UMTRI) and a number of European partner institutes,...