Automatic seat belts are seat belts that automatically close over riders in a car.

History

Automatic seat belts were created to circumvent vehicle occupants' failure to use manual seat belts.

The 1972 Volkswagen ESVW1 Experimental Safety Vehicle presented passive seat belts . Volvo tried to develop a passive three point seatbelt. In 1973 Volkswagen announced they had a functional passive seat belt. The first commercial car to use automatic seat belts was the 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit .

One problem identified with the automatic seat belt is that they do not work well with child safety seats. When air bags became mandatory, most vehicles stopped offering automatic seat belts. The biggest exception is the Ford Escort/Mercury Tracer, as well as a few other models, which continued using automatic safety belts along with dual airbags in the 1995 and 1996 model years.

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