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.
Are 3 point lap and shoulder safety belts.
In the back seat.
Side air bags provide protection.
Nils bohlin modern seat belts.
All states require that young kids up to a certain age be protected by a.
Child restraint seats must be use.
Nils bohlin s lap and shoulder belt was introduced by volvo in 1959.
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.
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.