The evolution of safety, the systems that save your life and the most iconic safety cars in history. Because the speed has a price.
The HANS device: how motorsport ignored the fix for twenty years before making it mandatory Two hundred and fifty units in a decade. Then Earnhardt died. Picture a small Georgia office in February 2001. Two men have been hand-building head-and-neck restraints for a decade. They have sold about 250 units in ten years. They have … Read more
Before Crash Test Dummies, They Used Human Corpses. Here’s the Full Story Every time you get into a car and buckle your seatbelt without thinking, you’re using technology that was developed with real human corpses. Not mannequins. Not computer simulations. Dead people. People whose bodies ended up in university laboratories to be slammed against walls … Read more
The three-point seatbelt: Volvo’s most expensive decision and the patent that saved a million lives You’re alive because of a Swede who designed ejection seats Look down. Right now. The strap across your chest, the buckle by your hip, that V-shape that pins you to the seat without breaking your ribs. That’s the work of … Read more
The Great Weight Lie: Your SUV Doesn’t Protect You — It Makes You a Projectile There’s an idea the car industry has been selling for decades as though it were a law of physics: that a bigger, heavier car is a safer car. You bought it. I bought it. Governments endorse it. Insurance companies reward … Read more
Electronic door handles: at least 15 deaths in crashes where doors wouldn’t open, the Mach-E recall, China’s 2027 ban, the SAFE Exit Act and Euro NCAP’s post-crash tests.
