13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!

[@Julie-p6u6m]

Just seeing those neck seatbelts makes me cringe!

[@timradde4328]

I have never heard of those. How could someone think that was a good idea.

[@johndoe-so2ef]

Watch it again, the crash test footage is hilarious.

[@timradde4328]

@@johndoe-so2ef Nah, I stopped watching after a bit. Too much wasted time.

[@LionsTigersBears]

Choker seat belts for your neck. The hangman edition😂😂😂

[@Dante1282]

I think they never existed

[@christianquezada9112]

Why not give Volvo engineers the credit for three point seat belts. They made them open source to ensure all vehicles could be equipped with them and save lives.

[@ksh1977]

I couldn't agree with you more and I wounder why Volvo do not get any credit AT ALL for giving away a profitable invention and has saved millions of lives - it tells so much more about Volvo as opposed to all other car manufacturers. Maybe the missing talk of both Volvo and WV this is a passion for US cars as not even the beetle was mentioned when the video shows the dashboard of a beetle and the comments mention a US manufacture?

[@TheSleepingonit]

The Volvo engineers heard about a person in Montana I believe died in a Volvo, the engineers flew there from Sweden to find out how to make their cars safer

[@edwardhammer5427]

That was my first thought as well!

[@BillConner7]

My 1962 Volvo S122 had a collapsable steering column, a roll bar, break-away engine mounts to direct it down rather than the driver/passenger's lap, a break-a-way dash, and three point seat belts. Did I mention 1962?

[@photografiq_presents]

Did you read the title of the video before you got all bunched up?

[@anvilgardgen]

Loving those older days, older car ads and all those beautiful cars...miss those days of very individual cars. You could straight away what car you were looking at or better...driving 😢

[@jewishman2687]

The steering wheel is NOT the oldest invention in automotive history. Early cars had tillers.

[@samr.england613]

Interesting note- The one thing on automobiles, ever since they had windshields, that hasn't fundamentally changed, is the windshield wiper! (And maybe the heater.) Just takes heat off of the engine, right?

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

@@samr.england613 The first automobiles with windshields came with a simple squeegee. In the rain, you would pull over and use the squeegee every couple of blocks. The first windshield wipers were manual. A linkage connected a squeegee to a lever on the dashboard, and you moved the lever to move the squeegee across the windshield.

[@samr.england613]

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." My point remains: Other than the heater, the one thing on automobiles that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last hundred plus years or more is the windshield wiper.

[@samr.england613]

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." Doesn't change my point that, besides car heaters, the windshield wiper is the one thing on cars that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 100+ years.

[@samr.england613]

Just want to add, Jewishman (I guess I'm Christian Presbyterian guy), that it's really interesting, so far as human creativity goes, that the first guys to build automobiles, seemed to think that they SHOULD look like, 'horseless carriages', that is, with a tiller and no 'front end'. It was later, by circa 1900 or so, that they were like, "Hey! This isn't a 'horseless carriage', it's a freakin' "automobile", and we can put the engine compartment in the front!! hehe

[@bwca4454]

This video has numerous inaccuracies and is only worth watching to simply view the old vehicles and their parts.

[@larsharris]

Yep. I was wondering if I was pulling a Biden. Recalling things not as they were.

[@CollapseReport]

@@larsharrisyou mean the orange scumbag ?

[@Wokevaccine]

@@larsharris "They the very Afghanistan madam Trump you aint ice cream...Medicare"

[@samr.england613]

@@larsharris Biden recalls things as he believes they were. He's a pathological liar. "Mental health experts say that many pathological and compulsive liars may believe the stories they tell because they've repeated them so often that they start to feel true. This can lead to pathological liars living in a fantasy world where their "truth" becomes reality.

[@samr.england613]

@@larsharris Biden recalls things as he thinks they were. He's a pathological liar. Pathological liars, among other symptoms, actually believe the lies they tell because they've told them repeatedly, often times over many years, and actually think the lies are true.

[@joelcarson4602]

The most dangerous item is still in all cars on the road today: The driver.

[@samr.england613]

Or highway and street design, especially in the US and Canada. "Keep Right Except to Pass" is not a suggestion, it's the law, but it's not enforced in the US.

[@alpzepta]

And autopilot

[@johnnygood4831]

Exactly. A study by the US military showed that if this side of the world switched to the German style of getting a licence, 80% of drivers would fail and be off the road.

[@grazz7865]

They are working day and night to change that (auto pilot, etc).

[@erintyres3609]

Driver education is much better than it used to be. The further back you look, the worse it was.

[@wtmayhew]

Neck seatbelt = automatic collision decapitation device.

[@michaelstoliker971]

There were no neck seatbelts. I don't recall a single car manufacturer offering them

[@wtmayhew]

@@michaelstoliker971 I’ve never seen neck seatbelts in any production or prototype car I’ve worked on. I used to volunteer for a museum restoration shop,so I got to see quite a few cars from 1902 to now. The writers for this video probably put too much emphasis on this item which probably barely made it off the drawing board.

[@glenfenderman]

@@michaelstoliker971 Probably experimental

[@MissFoxification]

@@michaelstoliker971 They said in the video they were not even tested, they were never released into the market.

[@michaelstoliker971]

@@MissFoxification Then the title of the video should have been "...Old Car Features That Never Existed!"

[@billytalbert2436]

One thing is for certain. Seeing these vehicles reminds me of the fact that I am truly old.

[@jeffskillman6161]

How can the non existence of crumple zones be a feature of older cars if they hadn't yet been invented? It's a bit like saying the problem with today's cars is the lack of a zenklebar which is likely to be invented in 2075.

[@frankkolton1780]

The same with the "non collapsible" steering wheel. The hydro bumper did actually improve accident repair costs and safety by about 18%. Some police and taxi fleets used them in SF and NYC, them freezing in winter killed that idea. While obviously not as effective as modern belts, lap belts were a huge improvement over no belts.

[@alexisdougherty2652]

Yeah most of these aren't really features but rather the lack of features. The title is misleading.

[@trueriver1950]

I disagree. The rigid steering column and the rigid front wings were features, which were replaced by the collapsible steering column and the crumple zones. Sure, of you want to stay a Y-T pointless argument you can say that the channel creator choose the wrong term in both cases: that the term they used was the improved safer feature that replaced the older rigid feature. But that sort of argument merely shows you are here to pick fights, not to learn from the video.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

@@trueriver1950 Just paying attention to detail. It is what thinking people do. Sorry.

[@notme123]

Saabs had crumple zones. So did Tucker.

[@scottshevy9643]

Tucker is not accurately represented by the Volkswagon Beetle!

[@samr.england613]

Nor the converse.

[@Datrebor]

The 48 Tucker was so advanced that the big 3 hated it. It had anti-lock brakes, padded dash, and a cyclops head light that turned with the steering wheel to give light in line with the car's travel.

[@KaiPonte]

I had no idea the Beetle was developed by Tucker and not Porsche.

[@samr.england613]

@@Datrebor Uh, when you turn the steering wheel, the fixed headlights go with the direction of the car, right?

[@Datrebor]

@@samr.england613 The two outer one are fixed but the center one moves in the direction the steering wheel turns. So it shines following the curve of the road.

[@coyoteodie4458]

In 86 i had a 59 chevy stepside pickup with all metal dash. All metal interior, actually. Gas tank behind the seat that leaked if you filled it too the rubber hose fitting. If it came stock with seatbelts, they weren't there when i bought it. Had built in step inside the door. Kept me and my girl from getting busted with a half case by hiding it in the passenger side step. Damn i loved that truck!

[@steventrosiek2623]

That was a beautiful and well built truck 🚚 ❤

[@ferlenarab]

@@steventrosiek2623 I had a similar 69!

[@michaelconran5252]

Hood ornaments originally were the radiator caps. Some car companies made fancy radiator caps and aftermarket companies made custom ones. The hood ornament was a carry over, now just for looks without any function anymore

[@kolsen6330]

My brother in law (a Surgeon) has a 100 point 1930 Cadillac limo. He has two radiator caps. One with the thermometer, the second is a leaded crystal hawk that stands about 10 inches high and is appraised at 25000. Needless to say, the hawk radiator cap is kept under close watch to prevent theft and is not on the car when driving.

[@davidpowell3347]

Pontiac had an optional lighted ornament .

[@swamprat69er]

The hood ornament WAS functional. If you sight past the hood ornament to the edge of the asphalt you were guaranteed your vehicle was in the center of your lane.

[@leonardsirwinirwin4247]

I had a 1931 Packard with the famous ornamental radiator cap. Some cretin stole it, and I had to settle for a gas-cap to replace it.

[@pcno2832]

My father used to work with a guy who drove some English luxury car in the 1950s (Rolls, Jaguar, Lagonda, or something like that) and he took the radiator cap/ornament into the office with him each day to keep it from getting stolen.

[@FarmRanchHomestead]

Calling the lack of a not-yet-invented safety feature a "feature" is disingenuous. The neck-belt is a feature, but the "lack of crumple zones" is not a feature. This video would better be described (and titled) as "new features in modern cars and other automotive features that no longer exist." To suggest that these "lacking" features were themselves features implies that cars were specifically designed to eliminate crumple zones, headrests, and shoulder belts, for example.

[@andrewbatts7678]

Who remembers 3 or 4 kids sharing 1 seatbelt in the backseat

[@ditmarvanbelle1061]

I remember being in the boot without one ^_^

[@andrekocsis2215]

Who remembers 5 or six sitting in the back with No seat belts!!!

[@weesejr]

You guys had seat belts?

[@andrewbatts7678]

@@weesejr yeah, in a Buick Riviera, that thing was a tank,

[@Bobrogers99]

Before the advent of crumple zones, bumpers were to bump with! If somebody's car needed a push, bumper to bumper contact worked. If somebody's car needed to be towed, the steel bumpers were solidly fastened to the frame, so there was no need to slide under the car to find something to attach the tow chain to.

[@paulwilliamson2370]

There were also trailer hitches that were clamped onto the rear bumper.

[@BillConner7]

Buddy of mine always carried an unmounted tire in his trunk-if someone needed a push, he'd take it out and put it between the two bumpers and push away.

[@redtra236]

@@paulwilliamson2370 Those still exist even on newer trucks since they usually still have rigid bumpers. Even on my 1966 F250 I opted to install a frame mounted hitch though much more secure.

[@Ripplin]

4:01 "The traditional steering wheel, the oldest invention in automotive history..." The earliest cars used tiller steering, not wheels, so...yeah.

[@Wokevaccine]

Im pretty sure the actual wheel was invented before we needed to steer anything 😂🤣🤣😂

[@FarmRanchHomestead]

I believe the oldest invention in automotive history has to be the engine... that is, after all, what allows it to be an "auto-mobile" as opposed to a horse-drawn buggy or wagon.

[@dieseldragon6756]

@@FarmRanchHomestead I was just about to say; As _Automobile_ is simply _Mobile with an engine_ and an upgrade from more traditional arrangements, surely the _oldest_ thing in automotive history is the Horse? 😇 (¹ - Unless - Before Horses were used - Some other animal was employed for motive traction. 🐘)

[@andrekocsis2215]

The wheel was the oldest invention in automotive history... or was the steering wheel invented before the wheel???

[@DblIre]

Growing up in the 50s and 60s, the only water bumpers I saw were on Checker taxi cabs.

[@2pugman]

In 1965 in NJ, all vehicles sold were required to have lap belts.

[@redtra236]

@@2pugman The comment was about water bumpers but I believe the federal safety belt mandate was in 1965 as well

[@billmullins6833]

Neck seatbelts were never a thing. According to Snopes "the concept appears to have been inspired by a scene in the 2008 film "The Onion Movie"". Totally debunked and it took a single search engine query to find it.

[@JamesCAsphalt8]

You have to be an idiot to look at the picture of a neck seatbest and believe it was real. The creator didn't do his homework.

[@Littlemissdirtbag]

He mentioned they were just a consideration. Pay attention.

[@billmullins6833]

@@Littlemissdirtbag Nope! They were never a real consideration.

[@OtayBuckwheat]

A concept, like many space age looking cars, that were only a fleeting thought.

[@5197661439]

17:59 That's a Triumph TR 2/3 assembly line in the U.K. not Japan.

[@wtmayhew]

If you thought lap belts were inconvenient, I recall my 1970 Dodge Dart which had separate shoulder belts which had to unclipped from hooks above the window and then attached to the lap belt which had already been buckled. There was also no retractor, so when you exited, you had to fiddle to re-stow the shoulder belt above the window before you got out.

[@joshcameron4337]

My dad had a fairlane with those. I always thought they were just decoration

[@wtmayhew]

@@joshcameron4337 I tried using those separate shoulder belts and they were such a pain that they basically were decoration. 🙂 I used the lap belts regularly though.

[@pcno2832]

I had those in my 1973 Cadillac (the last year for them). After a shoulder belt saved my father's life in January, 1981, I unclipped the shoulder belt and left it permanently clipped to the lap belt. It drooped a little, but otherwise, it functioned much like a modern harness. It did limit the driver's motion more than the today's belts, but carmakers compensated for that by putting all the controls closer to the driver; Cadillac reverted to flat dashboards with the 1974 models. I wonder how many people died in those cars because those clipped-up belts looked like too much hassle to bother with.

[@Wokevaccine]

Back when wearing one was optional

[@Wokevaccine]

@@wtmayhew Ah the lapbelt. The neckbelts dismembering cousin.

[@frankkolton1780]

I miss hood ornaments, higher fender corners (it made it so much easier for parking you car when you could see all 4 corners, vent windows, chrome bumpers, lower door waists (you could drive around and comfortably rest your arm on the window sill with the window being open), lots of leg room, and a trunk big enough for 3 full size mafia bodies with room to spare for a couple of shovels and two pairs of gloves. I don't miss carburetors, Delco AM radios, and lack of air conditioning.

[@melissasmess2773]

Mom's hand was a seatbelt, the dash was steel and the 3 speed transmission changed directions with push buttons. A big V-8 made it quick, 1964 Chrysler station wagon.

[@jimwright2795]

By the late 1970's, the few remaining hood ornaments were attached with a braided wire, which were in turn attached to a stout spring somewhere under the hood.

[@joes2514]

I had a beautiful stock Leaper hood ornament on my 2005 Jaguar.

[@Wokevaccine]

Yeah they were like those toys you push the bottom and it flops, let go and it stands up.

[@joanfrellburg4901]

That tradition with the spring and wire lasted quite a while.

[@PhilOsGarage]

When I went to the drag strip in my 82 cutlass I’d turn the hood ornament sideways to lower wind resistance as a joke,

[@joanfrellburg4901]

@@PhilOsGarage Did you remove the antenna as well, that can knock off at least a tenth of a second. As a joke. :-)

[@rosini112]

Great video, no clickbait or exaggeration. I miss the beauty of old car interiors and exteriors, what a time that must have been to be driving.

[@research903]

The so-called "Pop-Out" windshields you show are all TILT-OUT windshields. A popular style on cars of the 1920s & 1930s used for ventilation. They were a somewhat popular customization on the VW Beetles during the late 1960s & 1970s.

[@garyjubar5733]

I am what is known as "old school". i regularly drive a 1965 Ford Galaxy with the massive metal frame and all metal fenders, hood, and solid steel bumpers. If I am in a collision with one of these new cars, THEIR collapsable design will act as my buffer. My car has already been hit once in the front and never suffered a scratch, while the other car had considerable front end damage and had to be hauled away on a rollback.

[@mansge422]

Oh man. That metal dash board. My dad had one. We were hit head on by a Ford escort. Impact so hard the whole engine bay was toast. I don't remember the escort after . But as a kid , that galaxy had no seatbelts. I dented that dash board with my head. Still have a bump and I'm 46 now

[@andrekocsis2215]

@@mansge422 The Galaxy DID have seat belts including rear seat belts. But virtually nobody ever used seat belts niether in the front nor the rear. Had you been belted in, you never would have "dented the dash board" with your head. So the question here remains, Was the dash board the culprit of your head hitting the meatal or was it that you weren't belted in?

[@clayv5422]

We're part of a dying breed I drive old trucks everyday heck id drive a model on the road if I had one

[@frankfarago2825]

Excellent point. In an accident, only one of the vehicles has to have collapsible body sections. Trouble only ensues when two non-collapsible types meet head-on.

[@mattikaki]

VOLVO launced the three point safety belts in 1959.

[@dannyhull8007]

They decided that the safety advantage of the three point belt was important enough that they wouldn't patent the system, thus allowing all manufacturers to use the three point belt system without having concerns of patent infringement.

[@samr.england613]

@@dannyhull8007 Kind of like Ben Franklin with his woodstove and lightning rod. Go Volvo!

[@melissasmess2773]

My mom said seatbelts were an option on her 1955 Ford sedan, unfortunately quality wasn't good, sand hole on her engine block blew the engine quickly. Didn't cast a good block.

[@JonathanMoosey]

@AlexJonesWasRight1776and then GM messed that up back in the 1980s by moving the 3 point seat belt to the door that could come open in a crash

[@houseofno]

Those mechanical push buttons on radios could sprain a finger. LOL.

[@bossdog1480]

Neck seatbelts. When you listen to your kid's ideas instead of engineers.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Looking at products today, and how poorly they work. I see that the engineers are still kids today.

[@jakubjandourek2822]

Again. Neck belts are NOT real.

[@realulli]

The idea wasn't bad, just poorly thought out. Today, race car drivers wear a HANS device ("Head And Neck Support") and six point seat belts. Restraining the upper body was a good idea, just the implementation was bad.

[@andrekocsis2215]

It was NEVER implemented. Nor was it ever seriously taken as a viable feature.

[@frankfarago2825]

@@EarthSurferUSA It was the ENGINEERS who cooked that one up. Nor their kids. Get real.

[@JamesCAsphalt8]

The first picture of the "early" seat belts is wrong. It shows a classic old car that is retrofitted with modern plastic seat belts. The creator should not have included that picture. The part that the belt fits into should be all metal since plastic female seatbelt parts with plastic red buttons didn't exist. The actual early seatbelts were identical to airplane seat belts.

[@frankfarago2825]

Exactly right. That is a garbage plastic femal buckle slip they are showing in the video. Krap. The original ones from thee early 1960s were massive all-steel devices. Like massive aircraft seat belts. What you get for a seat belt and seat belt buckle today in 99 percent of the vehicles sold is pure garbage.

[@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret]

The neck seatbelt, what could go wrong ? 😂

[@thefogg]

4:28 i remember seeing this for a trailer for i think "the onion" movie, or documentary. it had a bunch of things safety related but with death as a result. i'm still trying to find this movie years later

[@Sacto1654]

If I remember correctly, the first widely used ABS system was that on the Mercedes-Benz W116 model car in 1978, but it was primarily sold in Germany due its high cost at the time. It wasn't until 1984 when wider user of integrated circuit controllers that ABS became a lot less expensive and started to appear in a wide variety of models, particularly in the USA. Interestingly, the electronics of ABS systems were also used as part of the stability control system that simultaneously modulated brakes and the engine throttle in the 1990's.

[@rockets4kids]

1 - water bumpers 2 - wrist twist steering 3 - neck seatbelts 4 - non-collapsible steering columns 5 - swing-away steering wheels 6 - pop-out windshields 7 - metal dashboards 8 - lap belts 9 - no crumple zones 10 - unsafe fuel tanks 11 - no abs 12 - hood ornaments 13 - no headrests

[@stevehoward3049]

But have to admit some them were pretty cool😂

[@samr.england613]

And Google Glass... And, Musk's 'robotaxis' and 'self-driving cars'. And Zuckerberg's virtual, 'meta-verse'. Plenty of dumb ideas today, as well.

[@ditmarvanbelle1061]

Thanks! Spares me the trouble of hearing this dude harp on about safety. This list seems trivial; as if he's forgetting about a LOT of truly rare accomodations.

[@colonelfustercluck486]

a dash mounted bottle opener would have had some uses...

[@MacTechG4]

“BEHOLD! THE DECAP-INATOR!” (Neck seat belt)

[@dekoldrick]

If Doofenshmirtz really wanted to be evil.

[@oldrrocr]

did he cover seatbelts for motorcycles? I fell alseep.

[@andrekocsis2215]

This was NEVER implemented on any production car. It was one of those wierd and freaky things that were thrown out there on show cars used by manufacturers to attract atention to their cars at manafacturers cars expositions.

[@frankfarago2825]

The made a DEMO FILM of this "feature" and showed it at car shows (Motorama, etc) and in showrooms using 8mm and later Super 8mm projectors.

[@71three5ohscrambler8]

Grew up riding in the back of a 70 F-100 pickup. More than once my dad would throw out his cigarette butt and it would hit me in the head or face.😂 I survived.

[@SundayOrmond]

😂

[@unconventionalideas5683]

Lucky he did not contact the fuel vapors coming from the tank mounted directly behind the cab...

[@neverjethot]

Going to the dump, my dad sometimes used me as a human tarp.

[@samr.england613]

In 6th and 7th grade, my best friend's dad used to take us on roadtrips in his huge 1973 Chevy Impala. (It was like a Limo in the backseat, lots of legroom.) His dad would chainsmoke the whole way with the windows up. After a few miles, he'd finally let us open, slightly, the backseat windows.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Psssst. He was aiming for you. :)

[@gnericgnome4214]

The Tucker's pop-out windshield wasn't just an escape mechanism; it was meant to pop out so that the passengers's faces wouldn't meet the non-safety glass of the windshield.

[@andrewnajarian5994]

That whole thing made little sense. It’s hardly the ideal place to escape but moreover why would people fly out of it? If they were going to fly out of that they were going to fly through a traditional windshield. Personally I’d rather fly through an open hole than through a sheet of glass.

[@pcno2832]

@@andrewnajarian5994 Some of the windshields hinged at the top were intended to provide ventilation, which, before air conditioning, was probably a huge relief in the summer.

[@andrewnajarian5994]

@@pcno2832 that’s what I always thought. The idea of it being an escape hatch had never occurred to me.

[@lotharrenz4621]

@@andrewnajarian5994 Also, most of those Windshields wouldn't open far enough for you to put your baled fist through the gap. You'd have to use tools to unscrew the lever first. I doubt anyone has enough time and patience to do that in case of emergency.

[@andrewnajarian5994]

@@lotharrenz4621 not to mention most accidents are frontal impacts hardly making it the ideal location to escape from.

[@lotuselansteve]

The Lotus Elan had a collapsible steering column back in 1962!

[@MattTaormina-y2k]

Can’t imagine why the Neck Belts didn’t take off 😮 seemed like such a great idea 😂

[@stevehoward3049]

And the forehead belt didn't make it either 😢😂

[@samr.england613]

Kind of like Cocaine Toothache Ointment, 'For Kids'. hehe (Circa 1895)

[@MattTaormina-y2k]

@@samr.england613 or Sears having X-ray machines to fit your shoe size… I know a guy whose mom worked there… and he used to go look at the bones in his feet while he was waiting for her to get off work 💀💀💀 he got skin cancer on both feet 👣 in his 20s … true story…

[@ericsikma4764]

PFF! Imagery: (Key words: "TAKE OFF"...As in, craniums...)

[@stevencorrea8032]

Because they were a pain in the neck

[@christaphersimmons2216]

I had a t-bird that had a swing away steering wheel with a swivel seat

[@FernandoBarajas-mx4pt]

The last automobile I remember having a steel dash was the 73-91 Chevy/GMC Blazers and suburbanites. I had a 91 and the dash was exposed steel/metal dash with only the top being padded. I think the worst auto idea was having a gas tank in the cab of the truck behind the seat. My 68 gmc had the tank behind the seat and if you spilled gas it stunk inside for about 30 minutes

[@brianfisher4940]

When seatbelts came out my grandmother was excited. Then came lap and shoulder restraints and she was extatic. I thought how odd. Then as I learned to drive she leaned over and said... always wear your seatbelts dear because you can take corners faster. She was right. You can take corners faster. 😅

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

👍to your Grandmother! 😂

[@bradparris99]

Your grandmother was right. I had a 1970 Buick Electra and I was that rare kid that wore both belts. Aside from the obvious safety aspect of buckling up, the car actually drove and handled with when strapped in. Of course, I had a lead foot and being buckled in just made sense. A couple of years later when a drunk driver hit me head on, the belts most likely saved my life.

[@brianfisher4940]

@bradparris99 awesome vehicle. I was driving the 69 Ford LTD Brogham 429 V8 Land Yacht and sadly I too and still do have a lead foot lol

[@RenanDavidSoriaAhumada]

for me the water ballom bumper could be a good solution, its not for high speed crashes and the wrist dual driving wheels could help, that or a "pedal" to block the rotation to one side at a time 4:28 perfect edition by the way. the swing away wheel could have helped

[@zekehanscom5869]

Supposedly a seven dollar gas tank liner would have solved the Pinto Issue.

[@philmann3476]

Back then there was a popular bumper sticker reading, "WARNING! PINTO! We Explode On Contact." They could have made that standard equipment, too.

[@DavidParker-i8o]

Later on, they did install a plastic "guard" between the tank and the differential. But I doubt it helped the issue very much.

[@Steven-em5if]

I knew a guy who loved Pintos! He said if you drive fast enough you don’t have to worry about rear ends!😂

[@wolfshanze5980]

The issue was they had like a million Pintos out there, and if they did a recall, the recall itself is more than $7/per car, due to having to have all the dealerships devote manhours and what/not to the repairs... and once again we're talking 1970s dollars, so even 1-million back then was a huge amount of money. The notorious Pinto memo was an executive discussion at Ford that basically boiled down to "it's cheaper to pay a 100 people's families who die a few thousand dollar settlements than it is to recall all those Pintos for safety"... meaning it was cheaper to pay dead people's lawsuits than it was to do a recall, and Ford said "Oh ya, good point, lets just pay dead family settlements instead of fix the problem"... when that got out and became public... oh yeah, it made headlines.

[@ferengiprofiteer9145]

​@@wolfshanze5980That same conversation went on in every boardroom for every car on the market. Still does.

[@LaPabst]

Great vid! I do believe that Volvo had the first standard lap AND shoulder belts in the early 60s.

[@peteyarrington582]

Fun to see the original California Special Mustang.

[@LamontRustamova]

I recall on my 8th birthday receiving a lap-belt as a birthday gift because our cars were not equipped with one for me sitting in the back seat, of our Caddy, and Buick as well as the middle seat in our pickup truck. (mid 60s).

[@machdaddy6451]

It's ironic that water bumpers were a flop, but now water barriers on the freeway work.

[@John-gr5tx]

Never mentioned the bench seat. Not only did you slide across the car, bad for the driver and children and over loading, but a big factor in teen pregnancy.

[@LionsTigersBears]

Wrist twist steering dangerous. More like wrist break steering😂😂😂

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

This was an automotive adaption of the control column used in aircraft as the similarity is so obvious.

[@Wokevaccine]

Playstation players be all "whatyoutalkinbout"

[@alberttaylor3917]

You couldn't shuffle steer with one of those.

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

Mercy! Perhaps my first car, a 1968 Opel Kadet, had water-filled bumpers. It was pretty much like driving a sewing machine with a 4-speed stick-shift surrounded by a light shell of aluminum. a 30-mph wind made it difficult to steer.

[@jerryfacts9749]

When I was in my late teen years I drove some cars from the 1950s and 60s. I remember these old style cars that did not have a seat belt. When I was 19 years old I bought a new 1968 Ford Galaxy. I ordered it with the seat belt option. Lucky I ordered seat belts. In 1972 where I lived they came out with the seat belt law.

[@bradparris99]

You were a smart man. In the mid 70s I had my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra to drive and I was that rare kid that wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts when I drove. My friends thought I was nuts for buckling up. Aside from the obvious safety aspect of wearing both belts, I found that I had a better feeling of how the car drove and handled with the belts buckled and that's what really got me in the dutiful habit of wearing them. One night when a drunk driver hit me head on, I was able to walk away from the collision.

[@Jeff82556]

Today the most dangerous feature within automobiles is cell phones.

[@mchenrynick]

You forgot rumble seats!!!

[@FastSS02]

For those that truly hated their kids in winter!

[@video99couk]

13:40 Lap belts were still in use for the centre rear passenger of cars well into the 2000s.

[@KeithClum]

And now, they come equipped with Blue tooth, and wifi, and other technology that has caused more fatalities than Drunk Drivers!

[@atomisum6445]

So true

[@annymoususer677]

@nukkinfigure Cell Phones! That is a Fact, Cell Phone Distracted Drivers, Kill more people than Drunk Drivers do! and in Many states, there are no laws deal with them.

[@beetrootmcguillicuddy4185]

ABS NOT safe. While increasing safety for those stopping in wet conditions like hydroplaning it has increased the loss of control and ability to stop on snow and ice over standard brakes.

[@Sunny-si5lp]

My grandpa has an old Pontiac with the water bumpers, he said it was rare. Turns out from the numbers I just witnessed, they're Extremely Rare!

[@ProducerCliff]

Love that for "old" metal dashboards you showed a Land Rover from the 1990's and a kit car from 2000;s! OK the VW beetle was older!

[@andrekocsis2215]

How about using pictures of different types of race cars which had MODIFIED dashes???

[@jburner4299]

I remember my first car, a 93 Tracer. It had those automatic sliding shoulder belts.

[@mitch075fr]

Collapsible steering columns were a thing with Citroën's DS19 starting in 1956 - the steering column had a bend and the wheel was made to fold to prevent impaling the driver in case of front crash. The DS19 already had crumple zones and the engine was supposed to slide under the car in case of a very violent front crash. That's at least 10 years before the US versions.

[@davidhoughton7132]

I'm old enough to have heard it all ....power steering took the fun out of driving ,abs brakes took the skill out of driving , seat belts held you captive in a car after a crash ,radial tyres meant you couldn't feel the road , car heaters made you sleepy etc etc . All by people just wanted to moan about something and criticise everything .

[@efandmk3382]

You could just build a go cart.

[@stevehoward3049]

And those pesky engines. I mean how's a fellow going get a workout 😂

[@samr.england613]

Oh come on! Power steering rocks! You ever driven a muscle car or truck without power steering? It's a bitch!

[@jamesolive3693]

Yeah but you can't compare the new technology to the old automobiles have to Evolve safer more comfortable, last longer or they won't compete with anyone

[@Datrebor]

@@samr.england613 I've driven a few cars without power steering. It is only difficult at low speeds. Once you get going faster than 20 - 25mph it is not a problem. Builds arm strength.

[@Samtheman85844]

Great video.

[@garyradtke3252]

ABS doesn't make the vehicle stop quicker. It just makes it stop straight without the driver needing to learn that technique. Airplanes and trains are a much different animal.

[@KevJ1247]

An ABS equipped vehicle will almost always stop quicker than a non ABS vehicle. It pumps the brakes much faster than a human can. ABS isn't just used for braking. On most modern cars, it's used for better acceleration and cornering too, using something called Dynamic Stability Traction Control. Since traction control uses ABS to limit wheel spin, adding a few body angle sensors allowed it to help in steering and cornering too. So in short, ABS makes a car stop faster, accelerate faster and straighter and corner better under all conditions, wet, dry or icy.

[@trance9158]

You're no engineer obviously or mechanic

[@trance9158]

@@Bill-YellowDogWelding not factually true

[@DaB55]

ABS doesn't make the vehicle stop faster, actually the stopping distance can be a little bit longer, but with ABS it's much easier to steer clear of a hinder or let's say to stay on the road if the road takes a turn and you have to panic brake.

[@icosthop9998]

​@@KevJ1247 no way ! You don't stop faster.

[@BillSmith-rx9rm]

There were some really beautiful classics in this video.

[@wreckum56]

My 2014 ram 2500 has the antilock up brakes and them in themselves have almost caused me to end up in the ditch many times.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I remember back when someone bought a Car, they took a pair of scissors and cut out all the seat belts! Such a nuisance, those seat belts!

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

My father (who would now be 109 years old if he were still alive) refused to wear safety belts, insisting that he could just "hang on to the steering wheel" in the event of a crash. Even at the age of 10, I knew he was completely unfamiliar with the forces involved. See, he was a lawyer, & thought he knew everything about everything.

[@bradparris99]

My grandfather was of the same mindset, so in 1974 when I got his 1970 Buick Electra to drive, it had virgin seat belts. He was totally mystified that I wore both the lap and separate shoulder belts when I drove. I kinda thought it was a no brainer to buckle up.

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

@@bradparris99 My pa was a daredevil on the road.

[@bradparris99]

​@@eekamouse-js8lrEspecially if he didn't wear his seat belt. I just felt more comfortable and seemed to have a better feeling of how the car drove and handled with the lap and shoulder belts buckled and dutifully wore them. And one night when a drunk driver in a Chevrolet suburban crossed the center line and hit me head on, I found out just how much protection they provided. Because of the size and weight of the Electra along with the fact that I was wearing both the belts, I walked away with only minor cuts, scratches and heavy bruises from the belts. The unbelted drunk driver had massive facial and chest injuries from impacting the steering wheel and his unbelted passenger went through the windshield suffering head trauma and several broken bones. It was my habit to get in the car, turn the ignition, push the cigarette lighter in, buckle up, light up a cigarette and then drive off. At least I was smart enough to buckle up. The jury is still out on the smoking, but both habits continue to this day. I'm sure that a 16 year old driving a Buick Electra, wearing the belts and smoking Winston 100s was quite a sight. LOL

[@bradparris99]

​@@eekamouse-js8lrI will say that in the mid 70s, just about everyone I knew smoked, so nobody really said anything about that, but I did take a lot of ribbing about wearing the seat belts. Can't tell you how many times a passenger would say to me as I was buckling up "Planning to be in a crash today?". And my typical response was "No, I just don't want to eat the steering wheel or get ejected today." A lot of times the passenger would shut up and the buckle up. My grandfather was one of them.

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

@@bradparris99 Good for you! Sounds like you eventually convinced your friends and grandfather that you were right. Even though my own 25-year-old brother was killed in a T-bone accident on the (his) driver's side, I'm convinced to wear my newfangled shoulder harness every single time - without thought. My father drove like an idiot, even passing cars on the uphill when none of us could see any oncoming traffic on the other side of the hill, never mind if it included a carload of friends and family. He's been dead for 32 years, but I'll NEVER forgive him for his reckless ways. He used to say, "What are the chances of us coming across another car on THIS highway?" Slim, dear Pa, you arrogant, non-caring @$$h*Le.

[@RobMacKendrick]

The Pinto was perfectly safe as designed. The problem was, production spontaneously changed the designers' specs to make construction cheaper. Specifically, they simplified the fuel tank, from one that had several mitigating features, to one that explodes when crushed.

[@gabrielv.3029]

Considering inaccuracies in this video, is it another IA creation?

[@johnneilokowitz2682]

It’s to bad that younger people need automatic transmissions and all the safety features many generations survived without them and we are still here

[@oldschoolartist]

Sometimes I wonder who were the freaking morons that came up wit these ideas. Neck seat belts? Why not just put a safety spike on the steering wheel airbag?

[@stevehoward3049]

😂

[@andrekocsis2215]

This was NEVER implemented on any production car. It was one of those wierd and freaky things that were thrown out there on show cars used by manufacturers to attract atention to their cars at manafacturers cars expositions.

[@burtpanzer]

Water does not absorb energy. The flexible water-filled rubber might absorb an impact. The bumpers ruptured because water does not compress.

[@russellwarrick6405]

The most common safety hazard in any vehicle is a loose nut between the steering wheel and the seat.

[@TrevorNet]

Ha! Steer horns weren’t mentioned. Imna go get a pair.

[@FastSS02]

They're only allowed on white 1970 Cadillac De Ville convertibles!

[@michaelmaddy278]

How did we ever survive in the 50s 60s an 70s?

[@gregobern6084]

Check the gas and refill the bumper. Ankle restraints with a sun roof prevented getting ejected accidentally

[@TheClownfight]

The funny thing is before crumple zones, cars were designed to protect themselves, not the driver.

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

gas tanks one the most dangerous things, pickups with the gas tank behind the seat .top of the gas tank which was the trunk floor with the filler tube exposed

[@davezul4396]

I drove those pickups for well over 25 years and flipped many a cigarette butt off the gas caps. Obviously there was no bad results. Sheeple panic over the littlest things...

[@timradde4328]

@@davezul4396 Just cause you were lucky doesn't make it a bad idea. You probably smoke when filling your tank too. I have seen people do that.

[@et76039]

Not just the Pinto. Mustangs used the fuel tank as the trunk floor. This is why a divider behind the back seat is recommended on this car, to prevent fuel from a ruptured fuel tank from getting into the passenger compartment. It also incidentally stiffens the unibody, improving the ride.

[@johndoe-so2ef]

​@@davezul4396yeah I drove an old Chevy for years that had the tank right behind the seat.....

[@johndoe-so2ef]

​@@timradde4328I remember working in the gas station as a kid, flip the license plate down, filling the tank smoking a Camel.... Dude started going on about if his car blows up, I started laughing, dude, if this car blows up, neither of us are going to care.

[@NektarVision]

Nice work using the neck belt scenes from The Onion movie. I never knew they were real!!!

[@wtmayhew]

“Tucker popularized…” Tucker sold fewer than 100 cars, so they did not popularize much.

[@gnericgnome4214]

Tucker was put out of business by the big 3 colluding with gov't (what is known as "standard practices" today) put Tucker out of business before he could get started. Then for years they developed his ideas and marketed them as their inventions.

[@trance9158]

You're clueless too .. look at how many features it had that others suddenly started putting into their cars!!!

[@wtmayhew]

@@trance9158 There’s a not too cogent remark. Disc brakes were one of Tucker’s most important safety features on the 48 (AKA Torpedo),a total of 51 cars. Lanchester actually invented automotive disc brakes in 1902. Crosley also adopted disc brakes in 1949 and sold 84,000 cars. The nod for driver of innovation could go to Crosley. Preston Tucker was sort of a WW-II era version of Elon Musk, but with a lot less money, and that ultimately got Tucker in trouble with the SEC, sending his company into bankruptcy. Honorable mention goes to the 1949 Chrysler Imperial which had a form of disc brake, very unlike the familiar caliper disc brake, developed by Homer Lambert of Ausco Mfg.

[@kaybroughton9004]

😊​@@trance9158

[@totallyjonesin]

@@wtmayhew This entire video was full of errors.

[@markmcclellan9286]

When talking about metal dashboards, how about using pictures of actual cars that had them, like a 65 Chevy, not an off road race car?

[@kevinbotelho9217]

And the guy puts on his shoulder belt WHILE DRIVING WITH NO HANDS!

[@gnericgnome4214]

once upon a time we had the alignment checked and took pride in the car being able to drive straight down the road. Of course, that's when we still maintained our roads...

[@trueriver1950]

It was the huge numbers of British drivers doing so that led to single handed belt buckles being made compulsory in the UK.

[@jamesmueller8701]

I have a 1979 Ford Ranchero... I also have a Honda Passport 4X4 SUV...The SUV is "dwarfed" by the Ford... Lots of metal... You can feel the metal when you close the car door... Yea there's some weight to it... LOL

[@erdi950]

Didn't mention Ralph Nader one time. All the improvements were made by "engineers."

[@LionsTigersBears]

New memory foam bumpers absorbs impacts soften bumps. Ballistic gel filled bumpers. Or airbags.

[@markhenry6486]

Prior to 1967 the brake master cylinder only had one reservoir that serviced the entire car. After that all cars were and still are made with dual Master brake cylinders. So that if one line broke with a single Master you lost all braking. This exact thing happened to me and I ended up going through a red light and an intersection intersection at 80 km an hour and then smashing into the berm on the other side of the road. Glad they came up with the Dual master cylinder so that if you lose your front brakes your rear still work or is it if you lose your rears the fronts still do work

[@keefr128]

This guy sounds like Principal Skinner.

[@coachrobwille4176]

Oh yeah yes he sure does

[@samr.england613]

Principal Skinner- "Bart, see how many dumb ideas you can come up with in an hour, and then try to beat that record!" hehe

[@WoozyMoose5150]

I think it's more Principal Skinner doing a Charlie Sheen impression.

[@eightballsidepocket9467]

“The only thing you can’t fix on a car is the nut behind the wheel”

[@mikeandstony]

Put on your neck belts, its going to be a bumpy ride!

[@ericsikma4764]

Imagery: "ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! Wow! That sure was some WASHBOARD-Y gravel!"

[@arichoward9635]

They skipped over several things that made it in cars but didn't survive like automatic seatbelts lol

[@mycroftsanchez901]

Water does not absorb energy, water does not compress!

[@paulwilliamson2370]

I saw water bumpers featured at a car show back in those days. The idea was that in a collision increased pressure in the water would force plugs to pop out and water would then be forced out through fairly small holes absorbing energy, rather like shock absorbers do. Never saw a manufacturer use them though.

[@luckylambdin8269]

I was born in 1956 and never once heard of the "wrist-twist" steering mechanism or the neck restraints. As if driving weren't already dangerous enough.

[@John-gi7qk]

Remember the bright light flasher on the floor's top left.

[@trueriver1950]

Yep!

[@Thirdbase9]

The lack of an item is NOT a feature. A feature has to be present. Lap belts were not a danger, they provided protection, less than a shoulder and lap belt system, but they they did provide protection. You may as well have included such things as tiller steering, plate glass windows, no doors, rumble seats, outside crank starters, and other early "features." But hey you did apparently miss the deadliest feature, the Cigarette Lighter.

[@Gretschbeach]

I dunno dude. You said Tucker and showed VWs. They’re not similar. I don’t hold with modern safety nonsense. The general principle makes accidents more survivable but more likely to happen in the first place. For instance, the safest way to survive an accident is to avoid it. I can’t avoid it unless I see it. But now I can’t see it coming because some safety minded dingdong decided to make cars safer for rollovers by obstructing the windshield with oversized A pillars. Want a safe car? Make it hard to drive. No distractions, no radios, no cruise control, no automatic anything. If all a driver’s attention is on operating a potentially lethal machine they will never space out, talk on the phone, eat breakfast, drink coffee, do makeup. Negligence and stupidity is the most common reason for accidents.

[@greatgreyowl2583]

The 2-point seat belt was not as bad as he implied. In fact one saved my life in a 70 mph rollover, I was not driving.

[@33fastcar]

I miss the dimmer switch for headlights being on the floor next to your left foot. It took me awhile to get used to using a lever on the steering wheel.

[@Mortimer50145]

Having the switch on a stalk allows it to be much more delicate construction which means that on many cars it has only a slight tactile feel but doesn't make much/any noise. Having the switch on the floor requires it to be rugged (to withstand being hit with the foot) and so it makes a very loud clonk-clonk sound whenever you alternate between dipped and high beam.

[@drpoundsign]

Water Bumpers?? Water BEDS in Seventies Conversion Vans was Way Cooler. As a Teen, I dreamed of owning one of those "Rolling Hotels." I think some bumpers DID have Hydraulic shocks. That prevents damage at about Five miles/hour.

[@JeffreyPerrault-hk6xe]

I don't think I EVER wore the seatbelt in my first car a '70 Ford Mustang 😂

[@CrazyBear65]

I don't like wearing seatbelts at all, ever.

[@gnericgnome4214]

I never wore a seatbelt until the 2000s.

[@leonardsirwinirwin4247]

I have used seat-belts from 1960 on. You had to get them at Pep Boys and install them yourself. Driving in competition made me appreciate them. People would make snide remarks, but my whole family was glad to have them. Belts once saved my daughter from injury, and later I was glad to have them when an inexperienced driver made a blind left turn and murdered my Mini.

[@tomholschbach5966]

I never wore one until Ohio passed the law

[@bradparris99]

​@@leonardsirwinirwin4247I understand what you are saying. In the mid 70s I had a 1970 Buick Electra and I was that rare teenager that buckled up both the lap and separate shoulder belts when I drove, but I was usually the only one in the car to do so. I can still hear a front seat passenger saying to me just after I had buckled up "planning to have an accident today?". My standard response was " I'm not planning to go through the windshield or eat the steering wheel today. " After that, passengers usually put on just the lap belt. In a crash, I guess it would have been better than no belt.

[@anttipulkkinen6196]

Three point seatbelts were the invention of Volvo, but unlike American companies would have done, Volvo left the invention unpatented. Such is real sustainable business!