Three-point seat belt
Cinturón de seguridad de tres puntos
- Date
- 1959 · confidence high
- Place
- Volvo, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Credited to
- Nils Bohlin (Volvo); patent released to all manufacturers
- People
- 👤 Nils Bohlin1920–2002
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A seatbelt that restrains the chest and pelvis with a single buckle, fitted as standard by Volvo, which opened the patent to competitors. It has saved more than a million lives.
What it led to
- Passive safety as a legal requirement and a sales argument
- Airbags, ABS and crash engineering
- The sharp reduction in road deaths
Built on
- Seat belt1885–1930s
- two-point seat belt
- aviation
Made possible
- Electronic ABS and production airbag1978-1981
- child car seats
- standardised crash tests