What Was the First Car to Use Seat Belts?

Safety belts have proven to be an irreplaceable safety feature in the vehicle. In accordance with data from 2017 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 47 percent of life lost in motor vehicle accidents can be saved if the driver and / or passenger wear a seat belt. Nothing rejects the ability to save the soul of a seat belt, but in case you wonder how this simple but clever discovery is there and what the first car to use a seat belt, we have an answer for you.

The use of the documented safety belt first came from the mid-19th century. England engineer and Pioneer Aviation Sir George Cayley are known to have found a coarse safety belt. Cayley’s seat belt is intended to be used by pilot gliders to make them safe. Many online sources including WikiCars claiming Volvo is a company to use the harness of safety or belt in the car in 1849 but there is a lack of evidence to prove it.

The first patent for all things close to the seat belt was given to Edward J Claghorn in the US in 1885. The discovery of Claghorn is more than a clumsy restraint specifically for tourists in New York taxi than all passengers in the car. According to the patent application, the tool comes with a hook to secure someone with a fixed object.

In the coming decades, two-point seat belts and lap belts become more common in flights. Passenger flights and remote coaches still use belts that discuss the waist and connect between two points.

In accordance with Indystar, the use of the first safety belt by a car driver in 1922 when an Indianapolis 500 legendary Racer, Barney Oldfield, ordered a parachute company to make safety restraint for race cars. The Chute Air Irvin company, which is owned by Leslie Leroy Irvin, which is credited has completed the first free fall leap using a parachute, given assignments. However, apart from the Oldfield genius, Indy 500 racers chose to jump from a car with a collision course rather than staying trapped in it, and not until 1954 that the sports car club in America made a mandatory seat belt in racing, according to defensive. Com.

American car company Nash became the first to offer a seat belt as an optional feature in 1949 (via Wikipedia). But initial resistance because the buckle system that often fails and prevention of escape causes only a few thousand buyers using it. In 1955, Ford began offering an optional seat belt but again, only found some users. In the same year, Roger W Griswold and Hugh Dehaven were patented (through Google patents) the three-point seat belt that included a lap belt bound to one of the shoulders.

In 1956, Dr. C. H. Sheldon, a neurology doctor, drifts the idea of ​​a seat belt that can be withdrawn to help relieve the opposition to a complicated seat belt, (through the law of the city). Sheldon also donated hidden steering wheel ideas and the primitive version of the airbag.

The most innovative development in the history of the seat belt is the discovery of a three-point seat belt or v-shaped V that we use for now. The three-point seat belt was first introduced by Volvo Designer Nils Bohlin in 1958 (via Wikipedia). Bohlin benefits from his previous experience by designing safety equipment for Saab aircraft, including the release chair. The design of the three-point seat belt involves one belt that will go around the lower body and chest, buckle near the hip, and applied easily.