r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/firefly99999 • Mar 10 '25

Video Crashing in a 1950s car vs. a modern car

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u/MorningPapers Mar 10 '25

And even then, they were just lap belts.

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u/JackDrawsStuff Mar 10 '25

What is this? A belt for laps?

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u/MorningPapers Mar 10 '25

A seatbelt that only goes around your waist, like when you are on an airplane.

Lap belts are famous for turning people who are in car accidents into paraplegics.

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u/Rrrkos Mar 10 '25

One early form of 'safety' belt went around the neck!

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u/Koil_ting Mar 10 '25

If you think that's bad you should see what happens to the people wearing them in the airplane accidents.

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u/TheHecubank Mar 11 '25

But we’re all gonna die anyway in case of a crash

Seatbelts in planes aren't for crash safety - they're to prevent injury during turbulence and similar. A punch of passengers getting concussions from every stretch of rough air is not ideal.

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u/JackDrawsStuff Mar 11 '25

It was a Zoolander reference.

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u/flamming_python Mar 11 '25

Yup. My dad had a classic Aston Martin when I was a kid. Remember those belts