S1 Ep112: The Bizarre Battle Over... Seatbelts??
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Driving is dangerous! You may think that safety measures would be a popular and easy win for the automobile industry, but it wasn’t always that way. Why would the auto industry collude to prevent important environmental pollution-control devices? Why were Americans so anti-seatbelt that, as one Michigan legislator called it, they fought for their right to fly through a windshield? Today, on Past Gas, the shockingly hard-won safety measures that the auto industry fought against.
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| 0:00.0 | Between forgetting the sellotape, |
| 0:01.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table |
| 0:04.1 | and the cat taking down the tree. |
| 0:06.1 | Again! |
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| 1:26.4 | Unless you daily drive a vintage muscle car, |
| 1:36.7 | chances are that the car you're driving today |
| 1:38.9 | is without question far safer than a similar car from decades past. |
| 1:44.1 | Even though automakers introduced the seatbelt in the 1950s, |
| 1:47.6 | they weren't an accepted part of the car |
| 1:49.4 | until the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| 1:52.4 | started requiring them in 1968. |
| 1:58.3 | Even after seatbelt surge showing up in cars all over America, |
| 2:01.8 | only 14% of Americans chose to buckle up |
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