Friday, August 14, 2009

History of the seat belt

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the seat belt, Volvo has released a 6-minute video that sums up how the seat belt was invented and how it became ubiquitous. Although this video doesn't go deep into details of the actual invention process (I hope to make a dedicated post or maybe even series of posts about that sometime), it's both informational and entertaining to watch.

The seat belt is truly the foundation stone of modern car safety science. All the safety features of a car are literally built around the seat belt. In some countries even speed limits are based on the survivability of belted occupants (that's an interesting topic by the way, I definitely plan to write about that in this blog).

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