Modern Seat Belts

In this look at the modern seat belt consumer reports says seat belts have been around for so long they sometimes don t get their due when people consider important advances in car safety.

Modern seat belts.

Side air bags provide protection. A seat belt reduces the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision by reducing the force of secondary impacts with interior strike hazards by keeping occupants. In the back seat. Early three point seat belts were fixed again like the belts in modern airplanes but locking retractors first appeared in 1967 on shelby s ford mustang based gt350 and gt500 models according.

A seatbelt also known as a seat belt or safety belt is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the driver or a passenger of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop. Swedish inventor nils bohlin invented the three point seat belt not the first but the modern seat belt now a standard safety device in most cars. In collisions and rollovers. All states require that young kids up to a certain age be protected by a.

Nils bohlin s lap and shoulder belt was introduced by volvo in 1959.