TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Delegating to the automobile: experimenting with automotive restraints in the 1970s
JO  - Technology and culture
A1  - Wetmore, Jameson M.
SP  - 440
EP  - 463
VL  - 56
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0040-165X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2015.0057
ID  - ref1
ER  -