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When was the law of "seat belts" started (what year)?

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When was the law of "seat belts" started (what year)?

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  1. the seat belt was introduced in the 20's but it became law in the 70's. hope this helps

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  2. Then Congress passes the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

    1967 - regulation requiring seatbelts

    1972 - realized that people where not wearing the seatbelts

    Regulation requiring automatic seatbelts or airbags by 1975

    Required cars between 1973 and 1975 to have automatic seatbelts or ignition interlocks

    Chrysler v. DOT affirmed the regs

    Industry choose interlocks - why?

    1974 - Congress passed a law banning regs requiring interlocks and said that all future regs on passive restraints had to be submitted to Congress for legislative veto

    DOT under Ford withdrew the regs

    DOT under Carter (a few months later) passed new passive restraint regs for 1982 and Congress did not veto them

    1979 - Regs were affirmed in Pacific Legal Foundation v. DOT

    1981 - DOT under Reagan withdrew the regs because the car companies were going to use automatic seatbelts that could be disconnected.

    1983 - Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Assoc. v. State Farm hit the United States Supreme Court

    The court ruled that the DOT could not withdraw the reg without a proper explanation of its actions

    Remanded to the agency for review

    1984 - DOT (E. Dole) promulgated a reg requiring automatic seatbelts or airbags in all cars after 1989, unless

    2/3 of the population were covered by state seatbelt laws

    The laws had to meet certain criteria

    What did MO do?

    $5 penalty

    No stop

    No meaningful seatbelt defense

    1997 - most newer cars had airbags

    1998 - airbags kill grannies and little kids!

    Nothing new - known at the time

    Save many more

    1999 - You can get your airbag disconnected

  3. We had to use them in 1963 where we lived in Germany.  Of couse, I was a teenager then, not old enough to drive yet.

  4. Depends what State you lived in . I saw seat belts in the 1958  but there was No law that you had to wear them .

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