CRASH TEST | HOW DID IT ALL START
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- This is an early video documenting the first official crash tests, airbags, and other safety features. The video discusses the use of seat belts and how belts paired with airbags were critical to the safety of vehicle occupants.
Discover the story of the first airbags and how they led to the safety technology we have in cars today.
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So crazy to think that seatbelts weren’t always standard!
What I find crazy is they used actually people in a crash test 🤣
Even if you don't crash, belts make it easier to stay in place behind the wheel and maintain control when you're forced to brake hard or turn sharply to avoid an accident.
Absolutely true
I thought they caused you to be strapped to your burning car where you can't get out cause it melted closed lol
@@omarguard5930The seat belts hopefully keep you from being seriously injured or unconscious so you can unbuckle the belts and get out if the car does burn.
@@omarguard5930 For a few dollars you can get a seatbelt cutter/glass breaker combo to keep in your center console
@@omarguard5930keep a knife in the glove box to cut the belt off
12:33 Rod Serling: You're about to take a trip...into the AutoZone.
Crazy that there's a whole montage of people saying they don't need seatbelts!
Yep.
That’s what I said to.
Now only a tiny minority thinks that.
@@equargwell a-lot of people don’t wear rear belts
Oh, people protested against seatbelts so hard when they started being mandated.
It was a mix of "You're encroaching on my freedumb" and the "It won't happen to me" mentality.
My Grandma was like this (6:55).
Until she had a horrible accident with a tree.
Her older car had the automatic chest belt, she never put on the lower belt.🤦♀️
The chest belt prevented her from going thru the windscreen, but the doctor lectured her how a lap belt would of reduced her forward moment a little bit more so her face would not hit the airbag as hard or jam her knees against the dash.
Thankfully, the chest belt just left a heck of a bruise on her chest, her nose had a minor fracture (just very bloody), and she could walk in a few days…just very very sore.
Insurance got her a new car since she was normal a decent driver (was icy on a steep hill so ice was blamed).
I noticed while she still griped about her chest bruise, she put the new belt on every time.
Then she had a minor superficial crash, and she willingly gave up driving.
I got the car! Damage was cosmetic. I loved it 🥰.
We did save a rosary of Jesus and Mary from the first wreck (on rear view mirror), and put it in her new (er) car.
I have been thru (no accidents) a few cars since, and still carry that rosary with me.
Not very religious, but call it tradition.
I have a 1974 Buick Electra with the Air Cushion Restraint System. It is probably my most prized possession. Next month will be it's 50th birthday of rolling off the assembly line.
Hope you never test that air cushion restraint system and be sure to buckle up.
I know people who don't use a belt today. They wrap it around the back of the seat to not get the annoying sound. Even though its a 25mph college road I unqrap it and wear it correctly. They think I'm crazy, but if they ever crash we'll see who they think is crazy.
Smart man
I have no damn idea what kind of idiot wouldn’t buckle up in this day and age
Here's something kinda crazy. I was drag racing in 69. We had a race only car. We were required to have a 5 point safety harness. I would have never driven down the track without it on. I didn't start wearing seat belts until sometime around 1990 and that was mainly due to the seat belt law. Since then and today I would never get on the road without one on.
Safety first! This was a nice introspective into how people thought about car safety .
We did not wear seat belts until a seat belt law was passed in 1986 in the state we lived in. I remember people did not like wearing seat belts before the law was passed, and that people complained when it went into effect. I was in a very bad accident in a 70s Chrysler product when the car was about 35 years old. It did not have 3 point seat belts like we now have. The shoulder belt clipped onto the lap belt and did not retract so you were held in one particular position the entire time you were driving. Though I didn't like that my movement was restricted, I always wore both the lap belt and the shoulder belt when I drove the car. Then I was an an accident at night at 65 mph with a stationary object in the road I couldn't see. Though the car was heavily damaged, I walked away from the accident. It was proof to me that lap and shoulder belts have always worked - even in old cars that didn't have air bags - if only people chose to wear them.
I had a similar experience. As a teenager in the mid 70's I had my grandfather's 1969 Buick Electra to drive. After week or so after I got the car, I buckled up the separate lap and shoulder belts, mainly out of curiosity. This was when the lap belt had a buckle in the center of the waist and the shoulder belt buckle rested just at the bottom of the rib cage. I was surprised at how much better the car drove and handled with the belts holding me firmly in place and I was soon in the habit of buckling up every time I drove. A couple of years later a drunk driver hit me head on. I had minor cuts, scrapes and severe bruising from the lap and shoulder belts, but I walked away from the collision. The un-belted drunk driver had severe head and chest injuries from impacting the steering wheel. His un-belted passenger went through the windshield and also had severe injuries. All my friends at the time thought I was crazy for buckling up when I drove or rode with others.
Every car i have been in with seat belts i have worn them second nature to put them on ,like flushing the toilet do it without thinging never found them uncomfortable if 3 point reel type . Better than killing someone or yourself
🍤 Prawns to Ford offering lap belts.
👏 Kudos to Volvo who went above and beyond seat belt testing and then giving the patent and technology freely to other automakers! 👏
Shout out to GM for being the first company to crash test cars 👏
Safe driving is important, glad you guys shared an archival video showing how back then folks wore making a fuss about it and now you have seat belts and airbags in every car!
I recently had my first experience of airbags. They do an excellent job. Not as loud as I thought, even as six went off.
found this video entertaining and, partly, illuminating(although, I knew, already, quite a good deal regarding that, about which the doctor spoke.) Speaking of that, R.I.P., Doctor.(He passed, in 1985, at 58.)
I don't like driving unbelted, my irrational fear of death drives that habit.
Can't mistake the voice of Rod Sterling (Twilight Zone) on that 69 airbag bit.
I definitely know some drivers that would benefit from watching this
I would have thought the doctor in the video would have been wearing his seat belt. He of all people should have buckled up. When I started driving in1972, I got my grandfather 's 68 Electra. At the age of 16, I wore the lap and shoulder belts. It was sort of a no brainers. The car actually drove and handled better when buckled up. Of course, all my friends thought I was nuts for buckling up and I was usually the only one in the car wearing a seat belt.
Its remarkable that more people weren't crippled/killed in auto accidents back then, especially considering the speed limits. Slick, flat vinyl seats, optional padded dashboards with their pointy knobs and non locking front seat backs.
Mandatory collapsing steering columns didn't appear until '67 along with dual circuit brakes and locking seat backs. Shoulder belts weren't mandatory equipment in US cars until '68. Headrests weren't mandatory until '69 and it still took decades to get everyone to simply buckle up. People would stuff the lap belts between the cushions. Even those who wore a lap belt didn't use the shoulder belt, if the car was so equipped.
When I was 9, I remember new car owners would buckle the belts and sit on top of them or try to get a local mechanic to bypass the starting system.
I learned my lesson at 5 y/o. My mother had just bought a new '69 Grand Prix. We only had it 6 days. Two blocks from home a drunk driver hit us head on. Seconds before the impact that bent the A frame, I'd unbuckled my lap belt to lay across the back seat. My mother had read that the safest place for a child was behind the driver so I wasnt allowed to ride in the front passenger seat. Since I removed the lap belt, I flew between the bucket seats, over her shoulder and dash, into the windshield. It knocked me unconscious. She bent the steering wheel into the shape of a taco, dislocating her shoulder and fracturing her neck which could have paralyzed her. Of course the drunk driver was uninjured. 🤬
The responding officer noticed the new car and asked mother what car did she have before. She said it was a '65 Corvair Monza Sport Sedan. He said he was sorry to see what happened to her Grand Prix, but if we'd been in the Corvair, we'd be dead...
I buckle up everytime and my car doesn't move unless everyone is too.
*That's Rod Sterling from the 1960's TV show The Twilight Zone, providing narration for the Eaton Corp. Great post. Thank you! ❤️🚘👍🏾
I think the lower traffic density played into their hands as well as generally a bit slower cars and thus also slower accelrations. But if you look at the absolute numbers, they remained stable or declined in most countries. Considering how many more cars and drivers are active out there these days, it is quite a decrease
belt shock is a new injury which a lot of people get and also airbag injuries as well, so even with seatbelts and airbags people get hurt, but are alive, without them they would be dead or disabled in some way as a results?
In the older cars that had separate lap and shoulder belts, people that only wore the lap belts had lower internal injuries from the belt along with upper torso and head injuries from their upper body being unrestrained. Lap belts alone offered protection only for the lower body and a bit of false sense of security.
That ignition interlock is intriguing. I wonder if we'll ever see its return?
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otherwise it's got one other flaw being a mechanic 👨🔧 for quick testing, i mean its a good idea but in the real world in practice 😉 i guess not, otherwise id be fully on board with the idea of inter-locks
Would be incredibly easy to defeat. Just cut the belt or get another harness and click it in.
My 1974 Volvo 145 which I still have today, has incorporated in the center of the steering wheel a large rectangular hub that was designed to house an airbag. For some reason, no airbag resides within. Instead, it is filled with nothing more than styrofoam. I presume Volvo was preparing for the day when airbags were to become federally mandated, but that never happened. However, I have a large area on the hub which I can slam with my entire hand to blow the horn. This same car also has the ignition interlock which still works. My 1993 Volvo 240 does have a drivers side air bag with the same style hub, and you can still mash your hand on it to blow the horn. It has no ignition interlock like the '74. Both cars have a substantial feel of build quality that reassures me every time I drive them.
It was a long transition. Citroen abandoned the iconic one spoke wheel around 1990, early XM still had it.
I consider the crazy cushion for belt development a planned stepping stone too.
Love them air cushion restraint system I wish cars today have those type of airbags.
Although they shouldn't replace seatbels , i like them too
¡Muchas gracias por subir este video!
To think, there are still those who will not wear a seat belt.
I wore out my seat belts. So, I had them replaced. I won’t drive without them. I also was in an accident in the 90’s with a car that had an automatic seat belt. I wore both lap and shoulder belt and had a couple of bulging discs in my neck. It would be worse if I was just wearing my shoulder belt with no air bag system.
Funny how they really believed that with airbags no seatbelts were required.
Sure was. And many who were in crashes, found out the hard way, that airbags AND seatbelts are designed to work together as a system. That why, when airbags finally became a common item in the early to mid 1990s many times on the steering wheel and dashboard would have letters "SRS" or "SIR" for supplemental restraint system or supplemental inflatable restraint, to reinforce the fact that your seatbelt is still your primary defense, and that the airbags are designed to provide additional safety in a severe crash. Now, it's very difficult to imagine driving a car without them.
Show 24MPH crash (like described by a man) yea.
But at higher speeds?! Hell no!
Unless I am just moving my car a few feet in the driveway, I belt up every freaking time!!!
Even the IIHS(Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)advocated for the use of lapbelts in airbag equipped cars. The use of lapbelts somewhat reduced the probability of occupant ejection in rollover situations.
Yep. They even showed the dead bodies of crash victims.
Good.
Because THATS what happens when you don’t wear a seat belt.
As a kid, pics like that maybe me buckle up before Mom had the car started.
Some people say showing pics like that is cruel an offensive to the victims and their family’s.
I say it’s gives the deceased a voice, a silent voice crying out to those to looking to WEAR THEIR SEAT BELTS!
May the dead RIP knowing that perhaps by dying, they inspired others to save others from their fate, mangled and crushed, unable to have an open casket funeral.
In the early 70's I got my grandfather's 1969 Buick Electra to drive. After seeing "Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column very time I looked at the speedometer, out of curiosity I buckled up both the lap and separate shoulder belts- a total of 4 belts and 2 buckles, none of which had retractors. Yes, I was completely strapped in, but I was amazed at how much better the car actually drove and handled even though it was a bit tricky trying to reach the lighter and ashtray, I was probably the only 16 year old back then that was in the habit of buckling up every time I was driving or riding with someone else. Fast forward to 1980 and a drunk driver hitting me head on. Because of the size of my Electra and the fact that i was wearing both the lap and shoulder belts, I walked away with only bruises from the belts which was far better than the unbelted drunk driver.
Yes and I posted it on Facebook and I didn't even know about the airbag system until today that they even had airbags in the 70s when I started driving.
How unsafe cars were back then is unbelievable
Excellent!
The crashed 1955 Chevrolet at 4:10 is a photo of actor Montgomery Clift's accident, which seriously injured him and badly affected his looks. The severe facial injuries helped fuel Clift's long decline and early death.
Amazing how seat belts started as optional to attach to the car to becoming as a standard in car safety.
Amazing information
The music is psychedelic without intending to be
It is very beneficial to watch this video. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Impressive how ignorant that people interviewed was saying they didn't use seatbells... I guess how many of them died in a later car accident.
It was either that or cancer from cigarettes
I was born in 1970, I remember in the 70's me and my brother used to stand up in the seat when my mother drove, lol...
Without seat belt on the airbag feature is useless so always keep the seat belt on while driving irrespective of short or long distance 😊
In 1978 I was in a freeway rollover crash that wrecked my car. Unlike nearly everyone else then, however, I always wore my lap and shoulder belts. I came though this trauma with only one small cut on one knee. This experience did not convince any of my friends to wear belts, however.
So as far back as the early 70's?? Wow! So many people acting like putting on a seatbelt is just too much work.. My parents drilled it into us to use seatbelts all the time.
We took the front windshield out of our cars so we just hit cool crisp air
Anyone remember the trash bag air bag on the Family Truxter? 😂
These airbags might catch on
Seatbelt is verry important
The first thing I do to the 60's and 70's vehicles I buy is install new modern 3-point seatbelts. The cars are still hollow tin cans that crumple like foil, but at least I won't eat the steering wheel or fly out the window. Plus, vinyl bench seats are like your butt is ice-skating on turns.
Side note: Put your phone down.............
Those were some of the dumbest, lamest, excuses I've ever heard for not wearing seat belts.
Back then, safety was not on the American public's mind and very few people buckled up. If they did it was usually just the lap belt. I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts in my 1969 Electra that I got from my grandfather. I found that the car drove and handled better with the belts buckled. All my friends thought I was nuts for buckling up and very few of them wore a belt if they were with me.
@@bradparris99 Yeah and now everyone is obsessed with safety even if it's false safety.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 At least the majority of people wear seat belts and they are the number one safety feature in a collision. Air bags, lane departure sensors are all very important, but wearing a seat belt is still the best protection. I am living proof of that.
@@bradparris99 Oh yeah. The car safety systems today are all fantastic. I'm just taking about general every day life. Like how they don't allow hard balls in schools anymore, or how you can't have peanuts in schools, or how everything is anti-bacterial, etc.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 You are absolutely correct. It's a miracle that any of us survived childhood.
8:37 - The interlocks were a _terrible_ idea. There are plenty of times you want to start your car before you are ready to drive (such as *every single morning* in the winter when you're warming the car up while you clean the snow off of it). Only thing an interlock will do is make someone buckle the belt behind them to be able to start the car and then get out, and then it'll be such a nuisance to get it on when you _are_ ready to drive, that you won't bother.
The buzzers were extremely irritating as well. I've pulled them on every single car I've owned. They should buzz if you are _in drive_ without your seatbelt on, not simply because you started the car. I always wear my seatbelt, but I don't need a buzzer screaming at me when I've started the car and am still getting my ducks in a row before I start driving.
Is that Rod Serling narrating the 1969 Eaton excerpt? At 12:35 ??
The Eaton Corp. narrator sounds an awful lot like Rod Serling.
It is. He introduced The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery TV shows.
I wish the Eaton film was on here!
9:19, top of third column - Air bags were proposed as mandatory equipment on all 1977 model cars. The people who argued against it complained that it would add several hundred dollars to the cost of the car.
Airbags didn't really become standard until the 1990s. Hardly any cars from the 1970s or '80s were equipped with those, and notice how delayed the deployment is on them. But it's crazy they already had the idea of curtain airbags but we never got them until now.
Air bags were developed because very few people buckled up and if they did, it was only the lap belt which was better than no belt at all but offered no protection for the upper body. A lot of people ate the steering wheel or the dash. The problem was that those early airbags didn't help in side or roll over collisions. A false sense of security. A lap and shoulder belt was still the best protection but the driver and passenger had to have the sense to buckle up. That was the problem.
The side curtain airbags are incredibly complicated and costly to make, It took a long time to get the engineering correct. I've noticed that some cars are now using what I call a funnel design for the passenger airbag since it has special inflated areas that funnel the head into the center of the airbag.
@@bradparris99 Sometimes the lap belt only is worse than no belt at all because of the angle it causes you head to hit the steering wheel/dash at
@@redtra236 It does keep you from being ejected but it definitely holds the driver in place to eat the steering wheel or the front seat passenger to crack their head on the dash.
As a teenager in the mid 70s I drove a 1970 Buick Electra. It had the separate lap and shoulder belts and I wore both belts. One night in a head on collision with a drunk driver, the lap and especially the shoulder belt let me walk away with only bruises from the belts and minor cuts and scratches- and most likely saved my life. All of my friends thought it wasn't cool to buckle up but to me it was a no brainer even at the age of 16.
Lamentável ter um carro que temos tanto cuidado, procurando manter a manutenção em dia, respeitar a legislação de trânsito e por causa de irresponsáveis destroem nosso sonho, quando não nos machucam ou matam.
Pickup trucks currently sometimes have 3 front seats and still don’t have a front airbag for the middle
Some of the manufacturers of those types of trucks are researching the use of independent center section airbags.
It's interesting that even back in the 1940's and 50's they knew airbags were a good safety feature, yet they weren't mandated for another 40 years by the government (I believe in the 1990's is when they weer mandated, starting with driver airbags only for much of the 90's, and then I think in 1994-1995, Passenger airbags were required for cars (trucks were exempt for a while longer) but even in 1974 it seems that they had actual data to support the idea of airbags saving lives, yet it it still took another 20 years to become mandated. One of the clips seems to also show what looks like a side-airbag which didn't become mandated until about 2010 (along with other safety features, like ABS -- at least on the front wheels -- being standard on all cars, although pretty much all vehicles employ a 4-wheel ABS system now, some I believe in the earlier days had only front wheel ABS).
8,000 airbag equipped cars for GM wasn't even a drop in the bucket.
Desde Argentina, en el 2021 todavía hay fabricantes de autos que ofrecen 1 solo airbag, obviamente para el mercado de América Latina donde las reglamentaciones no se hacen cumplir.
In Mexico, the Japanese sell the same cars they do in the USA, but without airbags because of the vastly lower discretionary income levels. It reduces the retail price of the car. The Mexican National Hospital associations dislike that behavior by the automobile manufacturers because the hospitals are the ones who end up dealing with the dead and injured.
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The Human Experience: Go through enough pain (and mounting statistics) so changes can occur.
12:18 The Narrator for the Eaton airbag video is Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone.
If it has an ignition interlock with the seat belt most people would just bypass it or buckle it behind them lol it wouldn't work
7:20 She buckled the baby up though. And I think putting a baby in a car seat takes longer than putting the her adult seatbelt on.
is this guy going through puberty? he is getting so excited about crashes he starts talking like a chipmunk.
Those old 16 mm projectors were notorious for speed fluctuations - I believe it's what they used to call "wow".
I didn't know airbags were around so long. My 89' Mazda didn't have one. I totalled it but got lucky with the seatbelt.
Edit: it was the MX-6 Turbo so maybe they weren't required in sports models.
When the mandate was finally implemented all cars below a certain mass were required to use airbag systems.
Hi
WHAT YEAR IS THIS VIDEO?
1978
Is that Rod Steiger narrating?
It's Rod Sterling from the Twilight Zone and Night Gallery TV shows. His voice is so distinctive.
@@solemandd67Sterling. My bad.
Why dont buses have seat belts, especially school buses?
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The recurring audio distortion throughout this film is annoying.
10:00 this man is possessed by chatgpt ...apparently the time-code is sometime out of sync.
Now we have balloons inside from stering wheel and from cockpit
when was this video made? it looks to be 1976 or 78?
0:35 - 0:40 It appears to say 1976. The first car they show crashing appears to be a 1976 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight.
I'm so angry that the Government never implemented airbags earlier to save more lives.
people used to be very expendable
Creepy music
Living in the uk i cant believe that they had developed and sold cars with airbags in the us in the 70,s no car at all in the uk got airbags until the early 90,s all cars from the 60,s had to have front belts fitted but it wasnt law to wear them until 83 andcin the rear they had to be standard fit from 87 but law to wear them from 1990
In my state in the US it's still optional to wear the seat belts in the back but in the front if caught not wearing them you can be fined ten dollars. However it's a secondary offense meaning the reason for being stopped can't be that you weren't wearing the belt, it can only be added on if you commit a primary violation. All new production cars have to have airbags however but if they deploy you don't have to replace them.
Very few cars in the 70s and 80s were sold with airbags. They were offered as an extra cost option, and almost no one opted for them.
I wonder who screwed with this audio?
What a huge AirBags - today are much smaller (well at least in Europe). I remember, that in mid 90's, a Mazda advertising, 323 model is equipped with dual American size AirBag :) . AirBags for European market were smaller, because of mandatory use of seat belts, airbags are supplemental restraint system here in Europe...
Different car usage scenarios.
It was common to have a full width bench seat in the USA. That meant up to 3 front seat occupants. The large passenger side airbag was designed to mitigate some of the forces that would be experienced by a center of the seat passenger.
In most US states front seat occupants are required by law to wear seat belts too.... although the fine for not doing it is really low in my state at least($10) and it's not a primary offense(meaning they can't pull you over for not using the belt alone, only if you commit another offense it can be added on as another violation).
A cushion, huh? Modern airbags are not, even when working fine. Worse when not, see the Takata disaster. Good most people seem to be past the magical thinking these days, buckle up, and sit properly. The passenger airbag is not a foot rest, nor a place to nap.
Airbags are only a supplement to a properly buckled seat belt. A fair amount of people still think airbags are replacements for seat belts.
I wonder those people who complained about the ignition interlock if they died or had serious injuries from crashes, they should introduce it again with modern tech and ecu's plus air bags, unless the passenger's have put their seat belts on, the car will not start, or better still breath and drug assessment machine to start your car with dna matching system, so that only your dna will start the car and programmable if you sell your car?
I've been searching for the video of the Oldsmobile with ACRS collision into a barrier a long time. Thanks for posting it.
1984... also interlock system is useless people just bypass it or simply buckle the belt behind them
Seat belts can kill people. An unconscious person who wearing a seat belt can suffocate when the chin is against the chest. Doctor said that, it is common cause of death in car crashes.
And if that person had not been wearing a seatbelt, they would have been pink jello splattered all over the dash and windshield.
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