Life-saving airbags were developed decades before the car industry and drivers took them seriously
Buying a new car without airbags would today be seen as ludicrous and dangerous. Yet for decades after the life-saving device was invented, it was ignored by drivers and car-makers alike.
Airbags in rudimentary form had existed since the 1920s, inflated by compressed air but too slow to be of real value.
Improved designs surfaced…
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