Clarence Ditlow was much more than the Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety (CAS). He was much more than the consummate consumer advocate for highway safety. To untold hundreds of thousands of Americans, he was their guardian angel—with a sword in his hands, waging battle after battle with careless auto companies, complacent government bureaucrats, and Congressional lobbyists whose sole existence is based on delaying or obfuscating any need for safety regulation of the auto industry.
