THROWBACK THURSDAY: AUTOMATIC SEAT BELTS
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- You may or may not be too young to remember when seat belts automatically snapped into place when you climbed into the car.
Actually they didn't and Jim, 24 years ago, explained the problem.
(This segment originally appeared on Motoring TV 1992 episode 4)
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I had those in my 1991 Plymouth Laser. Always wore the lap belt, never had a problem with them.
The hell with safety I miss those belts!
I have those on my 1991 Honda Accord Lx
Freaking legendary
Both my cars have them
@@lilbro9091 I got the same car as you
Imagine never even seeing them once, like myself 😭
It definitely did make it passed the 1980s. My 1993 Mazda MX3 had these and I digged it.
One of the most American things I've seen in my life.
Then you haven't seen the video of the dude sitting in his dodge flipping a bullet into the chamber of his gun... only unamerican thing about the video was the glock.
Canadians aren’t us
these were actually cool as hell
He looks way too much like mike's dad from stranger things
my grandmother has a 96 ford escort lx with the same type of seat belts and she loves them
Manual drivers be like "nope no automatic belts in my car"
This aired the year I was born, and yes I remember cars with auto-belts. I'm from the states, as well. My family had one car with automatic seat belts, a 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse. We owned it from 2001-2003, I was 8-10 years old. Its system was the same type as the Escort shown, and me being a kid at the time, didn't buckle the lap belt, thinking that if the car already buckled it for me, then why should I have to buckle something additional. (They were called "automatic seat belts" when really, they were only half-automatic) In cars with regular manual belts, I just buckled the whole thing. Case in point, my dad also had a 1994-model car in this same time frame, a Toyota Camry coupe with manual belts and dual airbags. There was no confusion there. I was much safer in that Camry, even though if there was a crash, the passenger airbag probably would have broken my nose (I sat properly, at least, and I was a decently-sized kid, so I would have lived if it went off).
Today, being 29, I drive myself in a 2011 Honda Accord sedan, and I'm glad that they sorted out the restraint issues of the '90s. No auto-belts, and airbags that won't break my nose. We've come a long way.
June 15, 2022 3:15 am
I remember many cars from my childhood had seatbelts like this one was a Mercury Tracer wagon which is just the Mercury equivalent to an escort. Milady grandfather had a Pontiac Grand Prix that had the style belt that was attached to the door. After arriving at your destination it was kind of annoying if you happen to open the door before taking a seat belt off.
I liked the ones I first saw in 1975 with the belt attached to the door. The door wouldn't open if it was locked
He also did not mention if your neck is positioned at an unfortunate point with those seat belt mechanisms introduced in the 1990s, you can get strangled by the seat belt
Who else is here after watching Good Mythical More?
My dad had a work car in the 90's and it was a dark green Dodge Shadow and it had those belts. I though they were cool back then of course I was in my early teens. I don't ever remember messing with the lap belt. I didn't know they were so dangerous. Glad we don't see them anymore. Especially in a world where people are driving around texting on phones.
Dude, It was not the automatic shoulder belt itself that was dangerous, it was the fact that people were not buckling up the lap belt
Is this the passive seatbelts? I’m just here because of the insurance letter i got
I have this on my 90 Honda Accord it’s pretty cool !
What’s wrong with the manual ones’s all cars have now. Why couldn’t they just do that? Lap belt and shoulder belt in one?
Because the NHTSA mandated PASSIVE restraint at a time when air bags did not exist.
People didn't want to put them on
My 87 Maxima has the seatbelts just like the one in the 91 escort above. God I hate those automatic seatbelts. There cool at first, but the drivers side one is stuck and doesnt move foward, and the passanger side one wobbles and wont go back ocassionally. Thank god they dont make these seatbelts anymore and to believe they used to be an option 😬
Lucas Hahn that was a PIECE OF SHIT IDEA!!! Lolol good luck brother.
Personally I think they are cool. I would probably not have had them in my daily driver (I always use the belt anyway, so there's no point) but they would have been cool to have in a classic car. Unfortunately, these belts were never fitted to cars sold in Europe (probably because we - unlike Americans - never had the same resistance to wearing seatbelts).
I had a Tracer and had a few accidents, had the belts, still here
I always do my lap belt in my 240 lol did it in my integra as well
Liking because integra
I never understood what the appeal of these was. Yeah it's automatic, but you still have to do the lap belt yourself and that isn't really any quicker or more convenient than a standard 3-point. You save a fraction of a second at best.
That's the point. They were pointless, add no additional benefits vs standard 3 point belts, and were can result in horrific injuries when the lap belt isn't used and you crash. In late 2001 my older cousin who was an EMT at the time, responded to a fatal crash involving one of these early 90s cars with the automatic belt, where the driver who wasn't using the lap part slide underneath and the shoulder part caught her by the throat and snapped her neck like a twig, driver and passenger of the other car involved were injured but survived. My cousin believed the driver of the old car would have stood a better chance with 3 point belts and not buckling up at all. But, what more can you ask for when decisions affecting the lives of millions of Americans are made by insurance companies, lawyers and drunk politicians, instead of engineers and old timers who understand how things in the real world work.
I remember my dad's car had those automatic seatbelts, then our succeeding cars don't have them anymore. Now I know why
saw this on the fresh prince Season 5.13 and thought I was trippin
Volvo got it right back in the late 1950s with the 3 pointed seat belts. Never was a reason to change it.
Is this canook serious?
Canuck!
thats all I needed to hear to NEVER buy an older car with an automatic seat belt
Your loss, I have a 91 integra LS, has those autobelts, yeah but it will outrun anything stock that isn't a hellcat
@@RageUnchained ...or a Tesla. I had a 1999 Integra LS, and while the handling was amazing, it wasn't by any means fast. It was ok, and it felt fast. But my current 1997 Acura CL with the 3.0 V6 is faster. Even then, a fat 2012 Accord Crosstour is just as quick.
@@jonnda yeah they are rarely fast stock, mine wasn't even quick till I put some money into it and weight reduced it, still won't catch a Tesla lol but those B18s are fun as hell
@@RageUnchained Yeah, unfortunately I didn't have a lot of money to put into it. Only really enough to keep it running, and then I just couldn't stop the oil from leaking. Ran out of money and time to fix that, so I sold it and bought a CL. I miss it. Especially that hatch body style and handling.
@@RageUnchained and tbh the Acura TLX type S has me drooling, if I had the capital I would be smoking so many confused people in their muscle cars with my 6 cylinder twin turbo (might be just single turbo I can't remember right now) with V-tec
I can not find one for the drivers side. My Spingers dine on it. The motor works fine
Spinger?
Remember when cars didn't have seatbelts
Way before my time, but based off research seatbelts were not standard equipment till 1966, in like the mid to late 50s to '65 they were optional equipment, and very few order them, and the few that came with seatbelts almost nobody wore them. Until well into the 80s.
I remember cars without airbags, but no seatbelts is too far back for my memory... although my dad had a 1977 International Scout II with only lap belts. As a 5-year-old circa 1998, that Scout was so cool, felt like I was in a tank. Although I've seen the crash tests as an adult... yikes. Not to mention, it weighed no more than my 2011 Honda Accord weighs now.
June 15, 2022 3:18 am
found in 1993 Mercury Villager
Not good but if the Ford probe taught me anything……. seatbelts in headlights need more moving parts. Just spitting facts.
i love those automatic seat belts
What's the point if they leave you splattered across the pavement when you actually need them?
automatic seat belts are not going to do that
They are kinda stylish and professional looking.
+John Corelli Yes, and futuristic too. It's something you might see in a Jetson's cartoon car.
@@salvatoreshiggerino6810 The motorized ones won't do that to you, only the door mounted ones.
I have an Escort like that exact one with the same belts. They don't work quite as well 25 years later, but meh.
You have to lubricate the tracks every so often and they'll work like new.
just be careful and don't get into an accident
+M Miller Lol!...Love that comment.
I had one where the automatic motor stopped working I had the seatbelt zip tied
Imma buy a car with that belt just watch
What a bunch of crap they are when the dam things quit working I got a friend's Toyota at the shop now with several issues if they were manual ones he wouldn't have this problem
They just did them poorly. I hate non automatic seat belts and as long as Tesla doesn't have an automatic seat belt that is well designed, I will not consider them any better than old trash cars.
Well that got political fast, ridiculing the US for its government not stepping in... Of course now that it has, we can see that those laws haven't really made much of a difference except in ticket revenue for police departments, but he was right about blame lying with automakers. Aside from testing and evaluations, common sense, just from standing there and looking at the thing for a few minutes, should have made most of the problems with these apparent, if not obvious.
It's a cute idea, but they have people who are literally paid to sanity check features like this. xD
Are you a moron or something? There are literally so many studies showing how fatalities in car crashes dropped off astoundingly after seat belts weee mandated. Yeah sure it is abused by police but that doesn’t undermine the actual undeniable fact that seat belts CAN and DO save lives
@@Erviniumd I love how people add personal insults to replies, as if that doesn't make them sound desperate to add weight to what they're saying.
@@IexoPeoa Calling you a moron isn’t harmful. It may hurt your feefees but it doesn’t hurt you. Crashing your car without your “The Man™ Sponsored Seatbelt”however will hurt you. Your take is stupid and advocates dangerous logic
@@Erviniumd Wow, you are an angry little one. Is this really that emotional a subject for you?
@@IexoPeoa how about you actually look at the point he made.
passive seat belts pointless
these auto shoulder belts were the best things since sliced bread, especially if you have a sensitive bladder and dont like the lap belt to begin with makes me have to stop and piss every 5 minutes.
If you dont wear the lap belt those seat belts are useless
@@fastone371 Actually, they are not. Before three-point belts were mandated by governments around 1970, two-point diagonal belts (without lap belts) were the norm. They were particularly popular in Sweden where seat belts were fitted to cars much earlier than elsewhere. Studies conducted back then all concluded that the diagonal belt DID decrease injuries and fatalities considerably compared to driving without any seat belt. Obviously they were much less effective than a three-point belt (the risk of submarining below the belt and breaking your neck was very high), but they did actually have a documented injury reduction effect, despite being inferior to three-point belts. So yes, using only a diagonal belt without a lap belt IS safer than not using a seat belt at all. It just is much less effective than a three-point lap+diagonal seat belt.
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