THROWBACK THURSDAY: AUTOMATIC SEAT BELTS

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7 жыл бұрын

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)
**Watch full episodes of Motoring TV at motoringtv.com**

Пікірлер: 90

@MrJeffcoley1 3 жыл бұрын

I had those in my 1991 Plymouth Laser. Always wore the lap belt, never had a problem with them.

@wiskyNrum20 3 жыл бұрын

The hell with safety I miss those belts!

@lilbro9091 3 жыл бұрын

I have those on my 1991 Honda Accord Lx

@32VN0 2 жыл бұрын

Freaking legendary

@shadytreemechanic6745 2 жыл бұрын

Both my cars have them

@shadytreemechanic6745 2 жыл бұрын

@@lilbro9091 I got the same car as you

@tahsin28 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine never even seeing them once, like myself 😭

@cultofbeats8987 5 жыл бұрын

He looks way too much like mike's dad from stranger things

@jacobtb1 2 жыл бұрын

these were actually cool as hell

@JohnVoxville53 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most American things I've seen in my life.

@iiGingiey 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jaydenbrockington4525 2 жыл бұрын

Canadians aren’t us

@B.HARRRR 5 ай бұрын

It definitely did make it passed the 1980s. My 1993 Mazda MX3 had these and I digged it.

@user-ho1ih1uj6w 2 жыл бұрын

Manual drivers be like "nope no automatic belts in my car"

@robertbissell5891 7 жыл бұрын

my grandmother has a 96 ford escort lx with the same type of seat belts and she loves them

@sandfox03 4 жыл бұрын

Who else is here after watching Good Mythical More?

@whattheheck1000 2 жыл бұрын

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

@robertknight4672 Жыл бұрын

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.

@BroccoliBeefed 7 жыл бұрын

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

@wulfone5961 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jameslegato7889 Жыл бұрын

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

@chuytoledo2959 2 жыл бұрын

I have this on my 90 Honda Accord it’s pretty cool !

@conraddevera 4 жыл бұрын

Is this the passive seatbelts? I’m just here because of the insurance letter i got

@insanetaco98 6 жыл бұрын

I always do my lap belt in my 240 lol did it in my integra as well

@iiGingiey 3 жыл бұрын

Liking because integra

@lucashahn5512 7 жыл бұрын

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 😬

@nesco7615 6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Hahn that was a PIECE OF SHIT IDEA!!! Lolol good luck brother.

@HateIronMaiden 4 жыл бұрын

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).

@emancoy Жыл бұрын

I remember my dad's car had those automatic seatbelts, then our succeeding cars don't have them anymore. Now I know why

@zoraebsaleem5527 3 жыл бұрын

saw this on the fresh prince Season 5.13 and thought I was trippin

@annalucas6776 5 жыл бұрын

I can not find one for the drivers side. My Spingers dine on it. The motor works fine

@jimmbobb 3 жыл бұрын

Spinger?

@samkjolhaug1993 2 жыл бұрын

found in 1993 Mercury Villager

@cad5359 7 жыл бұрын

I have an Escort like that exact one with the same belts. They don't work quite as well 25 years later, but meh.

@jimmbobb 3 жыл бұрын

You have to lubricate the tracks every so often and they'll work like new.

@tbr2109 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Sparky-ww5re 2 ай бұрын

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.

@qfox16789 5 жыл бұрын

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?

@BenotzJoe 3 жыл бұрын

Because the NHTSA mandated PASSIVE restraint at a time when air bags did not exist.

@BrandonHanners 2 жыл бұрын

People didn't want to put them on

@robertbissell5891 7 жыл бұрын

i love those automatic seat belts

@salvatoreshiggerino6810 7 жыл бұрын

What's the point if they leave you splattered across the pavement when you actually need them?

@robertbissell5891 7 жыл бұрын

automatic seat belts are not going to do that

@johnkarl8373 7 жыл бұрын

They are kinda stylish and professional looking.

@oldiesgeek454 6 жыл бұрын

+John Corelli Yes, and futuristic too. It's something you might see in a Jetson's cartoon car.

@computerwiz4 5 жыл бұрын

@@salvatoreshiggerino6810 The motorized ones won't do that to you, only the door mounted ones.

@JonathanMoosey 2 ай бұрын

Volvo got it right back in the late 1950s with the 3 pointed seat belts. Never was a reason to change it.

@nightwolf883 4 жыл бұрын

Is this canook serious?

@crosseyxpoweruk 4 жыл бұрын

Canuck!

@PlumbNutz Жыл бұрын

That's really clever how he spells korner with a "K"...

@marilynparrish3618 3 жыл бұрын

Remember when cars didn't have seatbelts

@Sparky-ww5re 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@whattheheck1000 2 жыл бұрын

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

@oechikr 5 жыл бұрын

thats all I needed to hear to NEVER buy an older car with an automatic seat belt

@RageUnchained 5 жыл бұрын

Your loss, I have a 91 integra LS, has those autobelts, yeah but it will outrun anything stock that isn't a hellcat

@jonnda 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@RageUnchained 4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@jonnda 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@iiGingiey 3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@robertgreen4050 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ktmexplorations 2 жыл бұрын

Imma buy a car with that belt just watch

@m.miller2374 7 жыл бұрын

just be careful and don't get into an accident

@oldiesgeek454 6 жыл бұрын

+M Miller Lol!...Love that comment.

@sidharthchand8072 3 жыл бұрын

I had one where the automatic motor stopped working I had the seatbelt zip tied

@hansidso2534 11 ай бұрын

Not good but if the Ford probe taught me anything……. seatbelts in headlights need more moving parts. Just spitting facts.

@IexoPeoa 6 жыл бұрын

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

@Erviniumd 2 жыл бұрын

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

@IexoPeoa 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Erviniumd 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@IexoPeoa 2 жыл бұрын

@@Erviniumd Wow, you are an angry little one. Is this really that emotional a subject for you?

@ryano.8768 2 жыл бұрын

@@IexoPeoa how about you actually look at the point he made.

@danielferstendig 7 жыл бұрын

passive seat belts pointless

@cherubin7th Жыл бұрын

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.

@sandab767 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@fastone371 4 жыл бұрын

If you dont wear the lap belt those seat belts are useless

@HateIronMaiden 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.