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Is it true that in the 1960s a company prototyped a seat belt that went around the neck?
You mean this one….


Nah… this was originally a gag that went viral after someone started taking it for real. And now, it just won’t go away.

Having lived during the era when seat belts were starting to be phased in, I can assure you that among the various models proposed and implemented - there was never one that looked like that.

There is a popular picture circulating on the internet, which can primarily be found on Reddit, which shows a separate seat belt used around the neck. However this was not an actual development photo, but instead was an exaggeration, joke or parody, used to make fun of seat belt use.


Actual automotive engineers fully understood the fundamentals of basic restraint design, even going back to the 1950’s, with 3-point harnesses being tested and even offered on some cars. Volvo was one of the earliest examples.


The above picture is the talk of meme town these days. This picture seems to be false and is just a meme only.

This image seems to be inspired from a movie which was produced in 2008 and was called as the onion movie.Seat belts were started as lapbelts and slowly and gradually they were modified into the lapbelts with a diognal shoulder restraint. The present day setabelts were designed by a designer named Volvo.

The above image seems to be prank which was made just for fun :D

It would be scary if cars had seatbelts (or neckbelts) like these.

What happened was in the 1960s there was a lot of arguably hysterical over-reaction to some very basic observations regarding the complete lack of regard for real-world outcomes caused by - in effect - a complacent US car-making industry selling whatever they decided Americans ought to buy, and a complacent consumer base brain-washed into thinking whatever was on offer was great just because it was a domestic product.

(The three point seatbelt was an import, obviously practical, and effective, and so it was also unwelcome, as it implied criticism and - How can one put this delicately? - a significant degree of obdurate, obtuse institutional blindness - which I think satisfies BNBR terms and conditions.)

Famously, Ralph Nader began to point out there was a reason so many Americans died in automobiles that might, just possibly, relate to design decisions that created mobile death traps.

Predictably the response in some quarters - notably Detroit - was not to consider the arguments rationally, but to declare the very concept of car safety anti-American.

It still manifests itself, in different form, but the ‘neck belt’ spoof was just another manifestation of claims just fitting a seat belt - even if not worn - would cause people to die in wrecks ‘because otherwise they could jump out, or be thrown clear’, and (above all other scare tactics) be trapped in their burning car…

The last phantasm was particularly ironic when it emerged the Ford Pinto - notorious for bursting into. flames, imolating drivers and passengers, if struck on the rear quarter - was known to have been fitted with a lethally dangerous corner-mounted fuel tank in order to make room in the back for a third set of golf clubs.

Essentially it's a manifestation of a deeply conservative mind-set: if everything is perfect (from the revolution onwards, obviously) only troublemakers want changes.

Ergo anyone argues for changes, they only want to make trouble, so they should be laughed at, or silenced, or driven out, but on no account listened to.

Thankfully the 1960s brought many changes… but not in the fundamental psychology (pun intended) that drives the head-in-sand, ass in the air, wilful ignorance, stone-the-blasphemers attitudes and behaviours…

Which is why even now, seventy years on, fully half of America is saying over and over ‘What is the big deal? If there is a problem, then we can fix it!’ While the rest yell in their faces `The only problem we got is all the liars like you who hate America saying we got any problems!’…

Wyndham Upalot wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 5:56 pm

GogLais wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 6:10 pm

Wyndham Upalot wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 5:56 pm

Sofa so good.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 11:54 am I don't know how he's looking so comfortable; when his owners clearly skinned his predecessors & made them into a throw

Niegs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 8:30 pm How fun would this be?

petej wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:50 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 8:30 pm How fun would this be?

Distinctly unfun the moment it goes wrong. The advantage of water is the lack of solidness when capsizing.

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:09 am Shared by, of all people, a lesbian friend. So it's not just men, but they don't get the appeal either!

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:27 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:09 am Shared by, of all people, a lesbian friend. So it's not just men, but they don't get the appeal either!

Pete Davidson?

I can only imagine that he's god like in the sack, because he's not especially funny for a professional comedian and he's not exactly a looker.

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TB63 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:34 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:35 pm Fair warning .... Make sure your affairs are in order; & your pacemaker battery is fully charged before exposing the delights of ......
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Susanna Hoffs in fishnet stockings

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If you could pull me out of her, you'd be the next King of England...

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