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This video, put together by the University of California in the late 1950s, has a straightforward agenda: explain how car crashes and seat belts work, and why wearing the latter helps you survive the former. The message resounds clearly to this day. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5861956&view=rss&microfeed=true Last week, local police in Pennsylvania stopped Julio Chimbo Morocho, 26, after observing him driving slowly in a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse pulling another car with a seatbelt. Morocho was ticketed for improperly towing a vehicle. But it worked, right? More »
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The winner of the first YouTube competition for best ad worldwide was this public service announcement from England about wearing seat belts. C'mon, it can't be that good...what the...wow, no, I'm fine, it just got really dusty in here. [Copyranter] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5694366&view=rss&microfeed=true U.S. highway deaths drop to 60-year low. Thanks, dead people! Also, using the seat belts dead people test. [Bloomberg] More »
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Welcome to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today we have three stories, all of which have to do with bad luck. Ever feel like your car is out to get you? More »
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How is it there are three separate Yahoo! groups — one with over 1000 members — dedicated to the fetish of seat belts (and women strapped into them) and we've only just now found them? (Links are probably NSFW) More »
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The "Buckle Up Key Holder" is a seat belt buckle re-purposed for clever key storage. It's also $22, which is funny because a visit to the pick-and-pull and a few bucks in parts and you could make one way cooler. More »
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I've been wanting to do a Stupid Murilee Junkyard Project™ with a Dodge Conquest TURBO seat belt for quite some time, and now I've found a junked Conquest! Combine the TURBO belt with a Cadillac Cimarron seat emblem and… win! More »
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Seatbelt ads are usually preachy and don't connect with consumers on an emotional level. This British ad avoids the first and succeeds in the second. We swear, it's just a bit of wayward sparkle dust in our eye. More »
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Yesterday we told you about the Ford inflatable seat belt that's definitely not an airbag. Today we get to see just how the thing works with crash event test footage and additional explanation on why Ford says they're important. More »
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Ford just unveiled their new not-an-air-bag inflatable seat belt here in Dearborn, a device Ford adamantly claims will not decapitate the big, heavy heads of small children or compress the thoraxes of the elderly. More »
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We'll be on hand later today when Ford will unveil a new safety technology — airbags in rear seat belts. We hope they'll work better than Chrysler's discontinued neck seatbelts. More »
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As far as fetishes go, girls in seat belts makes sense to us, it's also probably one of the safest. All we know is, we bet you'll never look at a seat belt the same way after this NSFW mega-gallery. More »
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This week must unofficially be the seatbelt gadgetry week. First we saw a newfangled seatbelt for the pregnant ladies and now we have a seatbelt light. There's not much explaining needed for this gadget — it's a light, that attaches to the seatbelt. We wonder how the manufacturer of this device can sleep at night knowing its product is risking the lives of hundreds of drivers daily. Using a seatbelt light obviously means the eyes are somewhere else than the road, therefore causing a great safety risk. More »
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Because our extensive readership research has determined that I have a better chance of playing Segway Polo with Bob Lutz than finding a pregnant lady reading Jalopnik, we present the Tummy Shield, a seatbelt for the pregnant ladies. Just because pregnant women may not frequent this Web site that is exceptionally courteous to women doesn't mean that the others reading won't ever have someone in their life that is knocked up. The Tummy Shield keeps a woman and her baby safe while in the car. Instead of having the seatbelt directly cross over the womb, the Tummy Shield goes over the thighs, still keeping baby and mama secure while also providing peace of mind that a cloth strap isn't potentially harming the future hoon. It's available directly from the manufacturer for $188. [Tummy Shield via Gizmag] More »
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Get in the car, boy. Put your seat belt on. I never let anyone ride without a seat belt. That's one of my rules. And in case you're feeling like that air bag will keep you safe when I plow this lil' red devil into a retaining wall, even without a seat belt, watch this Crash Dummies ad from the early days of air bags! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368998&view=rss&microfeed=true We're a little puzzled by this Danish pro-seat-belt ad; the message here is that Qatar-style two-wheel hoonage is perfectly acceptable, but only if you buckle up! More »
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According to NASCAR safety consultant John Melvin, an expert on impact injury, seat belts that go over both shoulders would save loads-o-lives if they were installed on passenger cars. Shockingly enough, Melvin believes that NASCAR drivers who wear 5- or 6-point harnesses seem to fare better in high-speed side-impact crashes than they would have if they'd they been wearing the same single-shoulder belts installed in, say, the Blue Max Mercury Topaz. Ford is already researching a seat-back-mounted dual-shoulder belt, which supposedly resembles a pair of suspenders. We're hoping they'll add window nets as well.– Murilee Martin More »
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