Is there still a Tricycle Safety Commission?

Factual Questions
1

(I hope I named the right bureau. If not, please correct me.)

When it was announced, when “consumer protection” was still popular with the politicians, there was a lot of hope.

Then they made the mistake of picking two “funny” topics to start on.

  1. They said there are too many tricycle injuries, because the wheel can turn too far backward and drop kids head first on the pavement at unsafe speeds. The answer is a simple 5¢ setscrew-and-slot or bracket-stop.

  2. They said too many kids fall off the sides of pool slides, landing on their heads and then into the water to drown. Solved by higher side walls.

The group was ridiculed for having “yuppy concerns”. (Everyone starts somewhere, and they were probably yuppies, but so what. Other things would come, and any safety issue is a legitimate government concern.)

Kids are still being injured for 5¢ profit margins, and I haven’t heard any more projects announced.

Is the group (whatever the name was) dead?

2

Well, I don’t know about a commission specifically for tricycles, but the Consumer Product Safety Commission regularly sets standards for the very things you list. I know this because I was assigned just last fall to look up their regs on bicycle seats.

3

God, remeber when consumers were king? David Horowitz was a star and politicians bragged of lower phone fees or tighter meat inspections.
Now they brag that they will let credit card companies dunn you at night without limit even after you’ve filed for bankruptsy, to squeeze the last dime out of the un-schooled, while the savy busnessman buys a huge estate in Florida for “homestead” protection.

4

Actually, the Tricycle Safety Commission realized that its goals of global domination would never be met by mere child safety regulation, so they quietly made a small change in their name in 1973 to the Trilateral Commission.