"THE SCIENCE REPORT" AUTOMOBILE SAFETY ALGAE GROWTH IN SEWAGE 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR XD1364

[@Doodlesthegreat]

YEAH, SCIENCE! 1:40 - It's '64, so while this is an improvement over vehicles just a few years older, note things still missing that all modern cars have: air bags, compressible steering columns, glass-mounted rear-view mirrors (that hook can peel your skull clean off), anti-lock brakes, and most of all, the switch from frame-based construction of passenger vehicles to spot-welded unibody, which allowed the creation of crumple zones in the vehicle to absorb a greater percentage of the impact energy. (It also improved fuel economy & reduced the cost of producing the vehicle, so everyone wins.) As far as the roads are concerned, just seeing roads without Botts Dots on them is a historical footnote.

[@Wintermute909]

Back in my day it was called engineering! 😊

[@TheBarracuda]

7:38 and 7:52 is he saying protein like it's an element called protiun or protinum? That's pretty neat!

[@tomservo56954]

The scenes in the beginning that show an accident occuring, come from a Bell System film promoting driving safety for its employees. It's in color, and on KZbin.

[@jamesharbin8848]

These cars had almost no crumple zone

[@optimisticneighsayer5823]

“All traffic accidents could be avoided, of course, if we all stopped driving!” I can’t help but feel the producer had a stake in the auto industry.