@article{ref1,
title="Delegating to the automobile: experimenting with automotive restraints in the 1970s",
journal="Technology and culture",
year="2015",
author="Wetmore, Jameson M.",
volume="56",
number="2",
pages="440-463",
abstract="This article explores the attempts in the United States in the 1970s to implement a new paradigm for automobile safety-crashworthiness, the idea that automobile passengers should be protected in the event of a crash. A large number of strategies were proposed, including air bags, seatbelt modifications, mandatory belt-use laws, and ignition interlocks. Many of these did not initially come to fruition, but they did give the automobile safety community a chance to experiment with different ways of distributing responsibilities between automobile occupants, automobile manufacturers, and, to a lesser extent, government agencies. These experiments helped pave the way for the successful implementation of a number of new strategies in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0040-165X",
doi="10.1353/tech.2015.0057",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2015.0057"
}