Von kulturellen Präferenzen und technologischen Fehlschlägen. Der Diesel-Pkw im transatlantischen Vergleich Deutschland – USA, 1976–1985

Neumaier, Christopher

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“…By reviewing the different roles of the state, automakers, scientists, and environmental agencies in Germany and in the United States, this article examines both, how the public reacted as well as the diverging public perceptions of diesel emissions as either “safe enough” or hazardous that emerged in the 1970s and 1990s. This considerably expands my previous research, which primarily discussed emotionally-charged public debates on diesel cars and their political impacts (Neumaier 2010a ; Neumaier 2010b ; Neumaier 2010c ; Neumaier 2020 ). The triangular relationship between technology, science, and politics in regulatory processes not only offers new perspectives on the history of diesel cars, but also on the interplay of engineering principles, scientific research, and political decisions.…”

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Technische Lösungen und umstrittene Interpretationen wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse: Risikoeinschätzung von Dieselabgasemissionen in den USA und in Westdeutschland, 1977–1995

Neumaier

2020

N.T.M.

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This article traces the different classifications of diesel emissions either as “safe” or as “hazardous” in the US and in West Germany between 1977 and 1995. It argues that the environmental regulation of diesel emissions was a political threshold. It contributes to our general understanding of how politicians, environmental lobbyists, scientists, and engineers constructed the standards and norms that defined the “safe” limit of environmental pollutants. After discussing how diesel emissions came under review as a potential carcinogen, I will show that the coding as “safe” or as “hazardous” resulted from negotiations that were entirely dependent on the temporal, geographical, and intellectual contexts in which diesel technology, scientific research on their emissions, and political regulation were embedded. In particular, I trace the differences in German and US regulatory policy. While US regulation relied more on epidemiology that provided only weak data on the carcinogenicity of diesel particulates in the early 1980s, German government agencies tended to base their policy around the mid-1980s more on the results of animal tests and shortly afterwards also on epidemiology. Furthermore, the article reveals how US and German automakers tried to foster doubt on the carcinogenicity of diesel emissions and how their approaches differed and shifted. Thereby, it sheds light on the triangular relationship between technology, science, and politics in regulatory processes by analyzing the different roles of the state, automakers, scientists, and environmental agencies in Germany and in the United States.

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“…Car owners thus claimed once more that diesels were sluggish. In addition, a concerned public linked all diesel cars to cancer as the only remedy to their health threatening soot emissions—the particulate filter—had failed (Borg 2014 : 295; Neumaier 2010a : 129–131; Neumaier 2010c : 40–43). 30…”

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Technische Lösungen und umstrittene Interpretationen wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse: Risikoeinschätzung von Dieselabgasemissionen in den USA und in Westdeutschland, 1977–1995

Neumaier

2020

N.T.M.

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Eco-Friendly versus Cancer-Causing: Perceptions of Diesel Cars in West Germany and the United States, 1970–1990

Neumaier¹

2014

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This article analyzes the ways in which identical and divergent perceptions of the carcinogenicity of diesel-engine emissions emerged in the United States and West Germany between 1970 and 1990. Therefore, it reviews how automakers, policymakers, experts, and the media negotiated which exhaust emissions were either eco-friendly or hazardous. Communicating complex technological and scientific facts to the public, these actors translated the information into easily comprehensible terms. In the United States, this simplification forged the perception that diesel cars’ particulate emissions were cancer-causing between 1977 and 1981; a similar change occurred in Germany between 1984 and 1987. Consumers reacted and shied away from purchasing diesel vehicles. While Americans continued to stigmatize diesel cars, Germans re-embraced the technology by the late 1980s. Consequently, new “clean” diesels were introduced, and the discourse on exhaust emissions shifted from health-hazardous particulates to the ecological problem of the greenhouse effect, casting the fuel-efficient diesel in an entirely new light.

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Männistö-Funk

2021

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Artikkelin aiheena on teknisten epäonnistumisten esittäminen, selittäminen ja rooli tekniikan historiassa. Aihetta käsitellään kahden historiallisen ja historiografisen tapaustutkimuksen muodossa tarkastelemalla sekä aikalaiskirjoituksia että myöhempiä historiallisia esityksiä kahdesta 1800-luvun puhuvasta keksinnöstä, ensinnäkin puhesynteesikone Euphoniasta ja toisekseen Edisonin puhuvista fonografinukeista. Artikkelissa ristiinluetaan erilaisia esityksiä ja tulkintoja näistä keksinnöistä sekä niiden epäonnistumisen kriteereistä ja syistä sekä analysoidaan näitä laajemmin tekniikan historian ja tekniikan historiografian näkökulmista. Käy ilmi, että vaikka aiheena olevia keksintöjä on käsitelty monesta näkökulmasta, korostuvat tieteellisissäkin julkaisuissa usein tietynlaiset epäonnistumisen narratiivit, jotka saattavat yksinkertaistaa käsityksiä niin teknisestä onnistumisesta ja epäonnistumisesta kuin tekniikan historiasta ylipäätään.

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Von kulturellen Präferenzen und technologischen Fehlschlägen. Der Diesel-Pkw im transatlantischen Vergleich Deutschland – USA, 1976–1985

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Technische Lösungen und umstrittene Interpretationen wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse: Risikoeinschätzung von Dieselabgasemissionen in den USA und in Westdeutschland, 1977–1995

Technische Lösungen und umstrittene Interpretationen wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse: Risikoeinschätzung von Dieselabgasemissionen in den USA und in Westdeutschland, 1977–1995

Eco-Friendly versus Cancer-Causing: Perceptions of Diesel Cars in West Germany and the United States, 1970–1990

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