Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed an amazing number of safety improvements in automobiles and the driving environment. Seat belts, air bags, safer fuel tanks, the Jaws of Life, and driving while intoxicated (DWI) campaigns are some of the devices and social movements that reduced the historically high auto fatality rate. NMAH invited auto safety pioneers to tell us their stories in their own words and reflect on the meaning of the objects.

Concepts

seat belts

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Additional Tags

air bags, auto safety, auto safety devices, america on the move: themes: auto safety pioneers, smithsonian, automobile safety

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)