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...standard since the safety movement began gathering velocity in 1966. But safety advocates are just as concerned by another provision of the bill that restricts the authority of the Department of Transportation to require use of air bags. The air bags are designed to inflate on impact to protect front-seat riders from injury, then deflate in seconds. The Transportation Department has planned to make air bags mandatory in 1977 model cars, but the new bill provides that it must first hold public hearings and then send the regulations to the House and Senate, where they could be vetoed...
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning...
What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations. As of January 1972, they required every new car to have a warning system that included a buzzer that screamed at the driver and front-seat passengers until they had fastened their seat belts. But that system was too easy to circumvent. All a driver had to do was buckle up the seat belt and sit on it or simply leave the belt unfastened and prevent it from retracting by tying a knot in it. So beginning in January 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation...
Beltsville Turkey. As a consequence of the new "interlock" system, up to 60% of drivers and front-seat passengers in new cars are now belting in. However, thousands of new-car owners are increasingly frustrated by the new system. Because any weight on the front seat activates the system, he, she or it must be buckled in before the car will start. Newspaper Columnist George Will recently bought a 22-lb. Beltsville turkey, plopped it in the front seat and found that to get his car moving, he had to belt the Beltsville. Drivers become livid when they...
...have advanced emission control units, reinforced roofs and strong, impact-absorbing bumpers. Motorists will notice most the federally mandated seat-belt interlock system. Lap and shoulder belts have been combined into one harness with a lock that completes an electric circuit with the starter. If the driver or a front-seat passenger fails to lock the harness, the car will not start. (If the car does not start even after the harnesses are locked, the driver will have to get out, open the hood, and punch a button in the engine compartment to get going...