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13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- 13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!
Explore the dangers of old car features in this captivating UA-cam video titled "13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!" From the 1950s to the 1980s in the USA, discover the safety hazards that were once common in vehicles. Watch now to learn about these obsolete features and how car safety has evolved over the years.
Just seeing those neck seatbelts makes me cringe!
I have never heard of those. How could someone think that was a good idea.
Watch it again, the crash test footage is hilarious.
@@johndoe-so2ef Nah, I stopped watching after a bit. Too much wasted time.
Choker seat belts for your neck. The hangman edition😂😂😂
I think they never existed
The most dangerous item is still in all cars on the road today: The driver.
Or highway and street design, especially in the US and Canada. "Keep Right Except to Pass" is not a suggestion, it's the law, but it's not enforced in the US.
And autopilot
Exactly. A study by the US military showed that if this side of the world switched to the German style of getting a licence, 80% of drivers would fail and be off the road.
They are working day and night to change that (auto pilot, etc).
Driver education is much better than it used to be. The further back you look, the worse it was.
The steering wheel is NOT the oldest invention in automotive history. Early cars had tillers.
Interesting note- The one thing on automobiles, ever since they had windshields, that hasn't fundamentally changed, is the windshield wiper! (And maybe the heater.) Just takes heat off of the engine, right?
@@samr.england613 The first automobiles with windshields came with a simple squeegee. In the rain, you would pull over and use the squeegee every couple of blocks. The first windshield wipers were manual. A linkage connected a squeegee to a lever on the dashboard, and you moved the lever to move the squeegee across the windshield.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." My point remains: Other than the heater, the one thing on automobiles that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last hundred plus years or more is the windshield wiper.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 "Mary Anderson patented the first effective windshield wiper in 1903, but it wasn't until 1922 that Cadillac began installing windshield wipers as standard equipment on their cars. The rest of the automotive industry followed suit." Doesn't change my point that, besides car heaters, the windshield wiper is the one thing on cars that hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 100+ years.
Just want to add, Jewishman (I guess I'm Christian Presbyterian guy), that it's really interesting, so far as human creativity goes, that the first guys to build automobiles, seemed to think that they SHOULD look like, 'horseless carriages', that is, with a tiller and no 'front end'. It was later, by circa 1900 or so, that they were like, "Hey! This isn't a 'horseless carriage', it's a freakin' "automobile", and we can put the engine compartment in the front!! hehe
Tucker is not accurately represented by the Volkswagon Beetle!
Nor the converse.
The 48 Tucker was so advanced that the big 3 hated it. It had anti-lock brakes, padded dash, and a cyclops head light that turned with the steering wheel to give light in line with the car's travel.
I had no idea the Beetle was developed by Tucker and not Porsche.
@@Datrebor Uh, when you turn the steering wheel, the fixed headlights go with the direction of the car, right?
@@samr.england613 The two outer one are fixed but the center one moves in the direction the steering wheel turns. So it shines following the curve of the road.
This video has numerous inaccuracies and is only worth watching to simply view the old vehicles and their parts.
Yep. I was wondering if I was pulling a Biden. Recalling things not as they were.
@@larrythompson8630you mean the orange scumbag ?
@@larrythompson8630 "They the very Afghanistan madam Trump you aint ice cream...Medicare"
@@larrythompson8630 Biden recalls things as he believes they were. He's a pathological liar. "Mental health experts say that many pathological and compulsive liars may believe the stories they tell because they've repeated them so often that they start to feel true. This can lead to pathological liars living in a fantasy world where their "truth" becomes reality.
@@larrythompson8630 Biden recalls things as he thinks they were. He's a pathological liar. Pathological liars, among other symptoms, actually believe the lies they tell because they've told them repeatedly, often times over many years, and actually think the lies are true.
Loving those older days, older car ads and all those beautiful cars...miss those days of very individual cars. You could straight away what car you were looking at or better...driving 😢
Neck seatbelt = automatic collision decapitation device.
There were no neck seatbelts. I don't recall a single car manufacturer offering them
@@michaelstoliker971 I’ve never seen neck seatbelts in any production or prototype car I’ve worked on. I used to volunteer for a museum restoration shop,so I got to see quite a few cars from 1902 to now. The writers for this video probably put too much emphasis on this item which probably barely made it off the drawing board.
@@michaelstoliker971 Probably experimental
@@michaelstoliker971 They said in the video they were not even tested, they were never released into the market.
@@MissFoxification Then the title of the video should have been "...Old Car Features That Never Existed!"
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, the only water bumpers I saw were on Checker taxi cabs.
In 1965 in NJ, all vehicles sold were required to have lap belts.
Why not give Volvo engineers the credit for three point seat belts. They made them open source to ensure all vehicles could be equipped with them and save lives.
I couldn't agree with you more and I wounder why Volvo do not get any credit AT ALL for giving away a profitable invention and has saved millions of lives - it tells so much more about Volvo as opposed to all other car manufacturers.
Maybe the missing talk of both Volvo and WV this is a passion for US cars as not even the beetle was mentioned when the video shows the dashboard of a beetle and the comments mention a US manufacture?
The Volvo engineers heard about a person in Montana I believe died in a Volvo, the engineers flew there from Sweden to find out how to make their cars safer
I am what is known as "old school". i regularly drive a 1965 Ford Galaxy with the massive metal frame and all metal fenders, hood, and solid steel bumpers. If I am in a collision with one of these new cars, THEIR collapsable design will act as my buffer. My car has already been hit once in the front and never suffered a scratch, while the other car had considerable front end damage and had to be hauled away on a rollback.
Oh man. That metal dash board. My dad had one. We were hit head on by a Ford escort. Impact so hard the whole engine bay was toast. I don't remember the escort after . But as a kid , that galaxy had no seatbelts. I dented that dash board with my head. Still have a bump and I'm 46 now
@@mansge422 The Galaxy DID have seat belts including rear seat belts. But virtually nobody ever used seat belts niether in the front nor the rear. Had you been belted in, you never would have "dented the dash board" with your head. So the question here remains, Was the dash board the culprit of your head hitting the meatal or was it that you weren't belted in?
We're part of a dying breed I drive old trucks everyday heck id drive a model on the road if I had one
Swing away steering wheels didn't disappear, they just evolved into the tilt steering wheels that are still available today.
Evolved. That's the word.
Hood ornaments originally were the radiator caps. Some car companies made fancy radiator caps and aftermarket companies made custom ones. The hood ornament was a carry over, now just for looks without any function anymore
My brother in law (a Surgeon) has a 100 point 1930 Cadillac limo. He has two radiator caps. One with the thermometer, the second is a leaded crystal hawk that stands about 10 inches high and is appraised at 25000. Needless to say, the hawk radiator cap is kept under close watch to prevent theft and is not on the car when driving.
Pontiac had an optional lighted ornament .
The hood ornament WAS functional. If you sight past the hood ornament to the edge of the asphalt you were guaranteed your vehicle was in the center of your lane.
I had a 1931 Packard with the famous ornamental radiator cap. Some cretin stole it, and I had to settle for a gas-cap to replace it.
My father used to work with a guy who drove some English luxury car in the 1950s (Rolls, Jaguar, Lagonda, or something like that) and he took the radiator cap/ornament into the office with him each day to keep it from getting stolen.
Who remembers 3 or 4 kids sharing 1 seatbelt in the backseat
I remember being in the boot without one ^_^
Who remembers 5 or six sitting in the back with No seat belts!!!
The neck seatbelt, what could go wrong ? 😂
Grew up riding in the back of a 70 F-100 pickup. More than once my dad would throw out his cigarette butt and it would hit me in the head or face.😂 I survived.
😂
Lucky he did not contact the fuel vapors coming from the tank mounted directly behind the cab...
Going to the dump, my dad sometimes used me as a human tarp.
In 6th and 7th grade, my best friend's dad used to take us on roadtrips in his huge 1973 Chevy Impala. (It was like a Limo in the backseat, lots of legroom.) His dad would chainsmoke the whole way with the windows up. After a few miles, he'd finally let us open, slightly, the backseat windows.
Psssst. He was aiming for you. :)
Neck seatbelts. When you listen to your kid's ideas instead of engineers.
Looking at products today, and how poorly they work. I see that the engineers are still kids today.
Again. Neck belts are NOT real.
The idea wasn't bad, just poorly thought out. Today, race car drivers wear a HANS device ("Head And Neck Support") and six point seat belts. Restraining the upper body was a good idea, just the implementation was bad.
It was NEVER implemented. Nor was it ever seriously taken as a viable feature.
How can the non existence of crumple zones be a feature of older cars if they hadn't yet been invented? It's a bit like saying the problem with today's cars is the lack of a zenklebar which is likely to be invented in 2075.
The same with the "non collapsible" steering wheel.
The hydro bumper did actually improve accident repair costs and safety by about 18%. Some police and taxi fleets used them in SF and NYC, them freezing in winter killed that idea.
While obviously not as effective as modern belts, lap belts were a huge improvement over no belts.
Yeah most of these aren't really features but rather the lack of features. The title is misleading.
I disagree. The rigid steering column and the rigid front wings were features, which were replaced by the collapsible steering column and the crumple zones.
Sure, of you want to stay a Y-T pointless argument you can say that the channel creator choose the wrong term in both cases: that the term they used was the improved safer feature that replaced the older rigid feature. But that sort of argument merely shows you are here to pick fights, not to learn from the video.
@@trueriver1950 Just paying attention to detail. It is what thinking people do. Sorry.
Saabs had crumple zones. So did Tucker.
“BEHOLD! THE DECAP-INATOR!” (Neck seat belt)
If Doofenshmirtz really wanted to be evil.
did he cover seatbelts for motorcycles? I fell alseep.
This was NEVER implemented on any production car. It was one of those wierd and freaky things that were thrown out there on show cars used by manufacturers to attract atention to their cars at manafacturers cars expositions.
The first picture of the "early" seat belts is wrong. It shows a classic old car that is retrofitted with modern plastic seat belts. The creator should not have included that picture. The part that the belt fits into should be all metal since plastic female seatbelt parts with plastic red buttons didn't exist. The actual early seatbelts were identical to airplane seat belts.
Neck seatbelts were never a thing. According to Snopes "the concept appears to have been inspired by a scene in the 2008 film "The Onion Movie"". Totally debunked and it took a single search engine query to find it.
You have to be an idiot to look at the picture of a neck seatbest and believe it was real. The creator didn't do his homework.
He mentioned they were just a consideration. Pay attention.
@@Littlemissdirtbag Nope! They were never a real consideration.
One thing is for certain. Seeing these vehicles reminds me of the fact that I am truly old.
You may be old, as am I, but you're 100 times smarter than the vacuum heads today.
The Tucker's pop-out windshield wasn't just an escape mechanism; it was meant to pop out so that the passengers's faces wouldn't meet the non-safety glass of the windshield.
That whole thing made little sense. It’s hardly the ideal place to escape but moreover why would people fly out of it? If they were going to fly out of that they were going to fly through a traditional windshield. Personally I’d rather fly through an open hole than through a sheet of glass.
@@andrewnajarian5994 Some of the windshields hinged at the top were intended to provide ventilation, which, before air conditioning, was probably a huge relief in the summer.
@@pcno2832 that’s what I always thought. The idea of it being an escape hatch had never occurred to me.
@@andrewnajarian5994 Also, most of those Windshields wouldn't open far enough for you to put your baled fist through the gap. You'd have to use tools to unscrew the lever first. I doubt anyone has enough time and patience to do that in case of emergency.
@@lotharrenz4621 not to mention most accidents are frontal impacts hardly making it the ideal location to escape from.
17:59 That's a Triumph TR 2/3 assembly line in the U.K. not Japan.
I had a t-bird that had a swing away steering wheel with a swivel seat
Before the advent of crumple zones, bumpers were to bump with! If somebody's car needed a push, bumper to bumper contact worked. If somebody's car needed to be towed, the steel bumpers were solidly fastened to the frame, so there was no need to slide under the car to find something to attach the tow chain to.
There were also trailer hitches that were clamped onto the rear bumper.
Wrist twist steering dangerous. More like wrist break steering😂😂😂
This was an automotive adaption of the control column used in aircraft as the similarity is so obvious.
Playstation players be all "whatyoutalkinbout"
You couldn't shuffle steer with one of those.
If you thought lap belts were inconvenient, I recall my 1970 Dodge Dart which had separate shoulder belts which had to unclipped from hooks above the window and then attached to the lap belt which had already been buckled. There was also no retractor, so when you exited, you had to fiddle to re-stow the shoulder belt above the window before you got out.
My dad had a fairlane with those. I always thought they were just decoration
@@joshcameron4337 I tried using those separate shoulder belts and they were such a pain that they basically were decoration. 🙂 I used the lap belts regularly though.
I had those in my 1973 Cadillac (the last year for them). After a shoulder belt saved my father's life in January, 1981, I unclipped the shoulder belt and left it permanently clipped to the lap belt. It drooped a little, but otherwise, it functioned much like a modern harness. It did limit the driver's motion more than the today's belts, but carmakers compensated for that by putting all the controls closer to the driver; Cadillac reverted to flat dashboards with the 1974 models. I wonder how many people died in those cars because those clipped-up belts looked like too much hassle to bother with.
Back when wearing one was optional
@@wtmayhew Ah the lapbelt. The neckbelts dismembering cousin.
I like how he goes Ford, Dodge. and Chevrolet, then shows an International Harvester 4x4.
VOLVO launced the three point safety belts in 1959.
They decided that the safety advantage of the three point belt was important enough that they wouldn't patent the system, thus allowing all manufacturers to use the three point belt system without having concerns of patent infringement.
@@dannyhull8007 Kind of like Ben Franklin with his woodstove and lightning rod. Go Volvo!
My mom said seatbelts were an option on her 1955 Ford sedan, unfortunately quality wasn't good, sand hole on her engine block blew the engine quickly. Didn't cast a good block.
Gm made it standard in 1969 for all its passenger cars
@@AlexJonesWasRight1776and then GM messed that up back in the 1980s by moving the 3 point seat belt to the door that could come open in a crash
4:01 "The traditional steering wheel, the oldest invention in automotive history..."
The earliest cars used tiller steering, not wheels, so...yeah.
Im pretty sure the actual wheel was invented before we needed to steer anything 😂🤣🤣😂
I believe the oldest invention in automotive history has to be the engine... that is, after all, what allows it to be an "auto-mobile" as opposed to a horse-drawn buggy or wagon.
@@FarmRanchHomestead I was just about to say; As _Automobile_ is simply _Mobile with an engine_ and an upgrade from more traditional arrangements, surely the _oldest_ thing in automotive history is the Horse? 😇
(¹ - Unless - Before Horses were used - Some other animal was employed for motive traction. 🐘)
The wheel was the oldest invention in automotive history... or was the steering wheel invented before the wheel???
By the late 1970's, the few remaining hood ornaments were attached with a braided wire, which were in turn attached to a stout spring somewhere under the hood.
I had a beautiful stock Leaper hood ornament on my 2005 Jaguar.
Yeah they were like those toys you push the bottom and it flops, let go and it stands up.
That tradition with the spring and wire lasted quite a while.
When I went to the drag strip in my 82 cutlass I’d turn the hood ornament sideways to lower wind resistance as a joke,
@@PhilOsGarage Did you remove the antenna as well, that can knock off at least a tenth of a second. As a joke. :-)
Love that for "old" metal dashboards you showed a Land Rover from the 1990's and a kit car from 2000;s! OK the VW beetle was older!
How about using pictures of different types of race cars which had MODIFIED dashes???
Supposedly a seven dollar gas tank liner would have solved the Pinto Issue.
Back then there was a popular bumper sticker reading, "WARNING! PINTO! We Explode On Contact." They could have made that standard equipment, too.
Later on, they did install a plastic "guard" between the tank and the differential. But I doubt it helped the issue very much.
I knew a guy who loved Pintos! He said if you drive fast enough you don’t have to worry about rear ends!😂
The issue was they had like a million Pintos out there, and if they did a recall, the recall itself is more than $7/per car, due to having to have all the dealerships devote manhours and what/not to the repairs... and once again we're talking 1970s dollars, so even 1-million back then was a huge amount of money.
The notorious Pinto memo was an executive discussion at Ford that basically boiled down to "it's cheaper to pay a 100 people's families who die a few thousand dollar settlements than it is to recall all those Pintos for safety"... meaning it was cheaper to pay dead people's lawsuits than it was to do a recall, and Ford said "Oh ya, good point, lets just pay dead family settlements instead of fix the problem"... when that got out and became public... oh yeah, it made headlines.
@@wolfshanze5980That same conversation went on in every boardroom for every car on the market.
Still does.
Can’t imagine why the Neck Belts didn’t take off 😮 seemed like such a great idea 😂
And the forehead belt didn't make it either 😢😂
Kind of like Cocaine Toothache Ointment, 'For Kids'. hehe (Circa 1895)
@@samr.england613 or Sears having X-ray machines to fit your shoe size… I know a guy whose mom worked there… and he used to go look at the bones in his feet while he was waiting for her to get off work 💀💀💀 he got skin cancer on both feet 👣 in his 20s … true story…
PFF! Imagery: (Key words: "TAKE OFF"...As in, craniums...)
Because they were a pain in the neck
Calling the lack of a not-yet-invented safety feature a "feature" is disingenuous. The neck-belt is a feature, but the "lack of crumple zones" is not a feature. This video would better be described (and titled) as "new features in modern cars and other automotive features that no longer exist." To suggest that these "lacking" features were themselves features implies that cars were specifically designed to eliminate crumple zones, headrests, and shoulder belts, for example.
Remember the bright light flasher on the floor's top left.
Yep!
1 - water bumpers
2 - wrist twist steering
3 - neck seatbelts
4 - non-collapsible steering columns
5 - swing-away steering wheels
6 - pop-out windshields
7 - metal dashboards
8 - lap belts
9 - no crumple zones
10 - unsafe fuel tanks
11 - no abs
12 - hood ornaments
13 - no headrests
But have to admit some them were pretty cool😂
And Google Glass... And, Musk's 'robotaxis' and 'self-driving cars'. And Zuckerberg's virtual, 'meta-verse'. Plenty of dumb ideas today, as well.
Thanks! Spares me the trouble of hearing this dude harp on about safety. This list seems trivial; as if he's forgetting about a LOT of truly rare accomodations.
When I was in my late teen years I drove some cars from the 1950s and 60s. I remember these old style cars that did not have a seat belt. When I was 19 years old I bought a new 1968 Ford Galaxy. I ordered it with the seat belt option. Lucky I ordered seat belts. In 1972 where I lived they came out with the seat belt law.
I remember my first car, a 93 Tracer. It had those automatic sliding shoulder belts.
I'm old enough to have heard it all ....power steering took the fun out of driving ,abs brakes took the skill out of driving , seat belts held you captive in a car after a crash ,radial tyres meant you couldn't feel the road , car heaters made you sleepy etc etc . All by people just wanted to moan about something and criticise everything .
You could just build a go cart.
And those pesky engines. I mean how's a fellow going get a workout 😂
Oh come on! Power steering rocks! You ever driven a muscle car or truck without power steering? It's a bitch!
Yeah but you can't compare the new technology to the old automobiles have to Evolve safer more comfortable, last longer or they won't compete with anyone
@@samr.england613 I've driven a few cars without power steering. It is only difficult at low speeds. Once you get going faster than 20 - 25mph it is not a problem. Builds arm strength.
ABS doesn't make the vehicle stop quicker. It just makes it stop straight without the driver needing to learn that technique. Airplanes and trains are a much different animal.
An ABS equipped vehicle will almost always stop quicker than a non ABS vehicle. It pumps the brakes much faster than a human can. ABS isn't just used for braking. On most modern cars, it's used for better acceleration and cornering too, using something called Dynamic Stability Traction Control. Since traction control uses ABS to limit wheel spin, adding a few body angle sensors allowed it to help in steering and cornering too. So in short, ABS makes a car stop faster, accelerate faster and straighter and corner better under all conditions, wet, dry or icy.
You're no engineer obviously or mechanic
@@Yellow.Dog. not factually true
ABS doesn't make the vehicle stop faster, actually the stopping distance can be a little bit longer, but with ABS it's much easier to steer clear of a hinder or let's say to stay on the road if the road takes a turn and you have to panic brake.
@@KevJ1247 no way !
You don't stop faster.
This guy sounds like Principal Skinner.
Oh yeah yes he sure does
Principal Skinner- "Bart, see how many dumb ideas you can come up with in an hour, and then try to beat that record!" hehe
The so-called "Pop-Out" windshields you show are all TILT-OUT windshields. A popular style on cars of the 1920s & 1930s used for ventilation. They were a somewhat popular customization on the VW Beetles during the late 1960s & 1970s.
My 2014 ram 2500 has the antilock up brakes and them in themselves have almost caused me to end up in the ditch many times.
You forgot rumble seats!!!
For those that truly hated their kids in winter!
Water does not absorb energy, water does not compress!
I saw water bumpers featured at a car show back in those days. The idea was that in a collision increased pressure in the water would force plugs to pop out and water would then be forced out through fairly small holes absorbing energy, rather like shock absorbers do. Never saw a manufacturer use them though.
When seatbelts came out my grandmother was excited. Then came lap and shoulder restraints and she was extatic. I thought how odd. Then as I learned to drive she leaned over and said... always wear your seatbelts dear because you can take corners faster. She was right. You can take corners faster. 😅
Sometimes I wonder who were the freaking morons that came up wit these ideas. Neck seat belts? Why not just put a safety spike on the steering wheel airbag?
😂
This was NEVER implemented on any production car. It was one of those wierd and freaky things that were thrown out there on show cars used by manufacturers to attract atention to their cars at manafacturers cars expositions.
And the guy puts on his shoulder belt WHILE DRIVING WITH NO HANDS!
once upon a time we had the alignment checked and took pride in the car being able to drive straight down the road. Of course, that's when we still maintained our roads...
It was the huge numbers of British drivers doing so that led to single handed belt buckles being made compulsory in the UK.
The Lotus Elan had a collapsible steering column back in 1962!
This video could easily be retitled, "Why the average automobile now cost more than the average American can afford."
Don’t be a Richard
So, go buy a Pinto and get it over with. LOL
Or retiled "Why the average wage has not kept up with automobile prices"
This video is about safety, not money.
@@brianreber8842 This video is about government intrusion into the driver's right to decide for him/herself. Thank your insurance company for that.
Ha! Steer horns weren’t mentioned. Imna go get a pair.
They're only allowed on white 1970 Cadillac De Ville convertibles!
I dunno dude. You said Tucker and showed VWs. They’re not similar.
I don’t hold with modern safety nonsense. The general principle makes accidents more survivable but more likely to happen in the first place.
For instance, the safest way to survive an accident is to avoid it. I can’t avoid it unless I see it. But now I can’t see it coming because some safety minded dingdong decided to make cars safer for rollovers by obstructing the windshield with oversized A pillars.
Want a safe car? Make it hard to drive. No distractions, no radios, no cruise control, no automatic anything. If all a driver’s attention is on operating a potentially lethal machine they will never space out, talk on the phone, eat breakfast, drink coffee, do makeup. Negligence and stupidity is the most common reason for accidents.
In 1956 Ford had a big push on safety. They had a deep dish steering wheel, and an optional padded dash along with optional seat belts.
I don't think I EVER wore the seatbelt in my first car a '70 Ford Mustang 😂
I don't like wearing seatbelts at all, ever.
I never wore a seatbelt until the 2000s.
I have used seat-belts from 1960 on. You had to get them at Pep Boys and install them yourself. Driving in competition made me appreciate them. People would make snide remarks, but my whole family was glad to have them. Belts once saved my daughter from injury, and later I was glad to have them when an inexperienced driver made a blind left turn and murdered my Mini.
I never wore one until Ohio passed the law
gas tanks one the most dangerous things, pickups with the gas tank behind the seat .top of the gas tank which was the trunk floor with the filler tube exposed
I drove those pickups for well over 25 years and flipped many a cigarette butt off the gas caps. Obviously there was no bad results. Sheeple panic over the littlest things...
@@davezul4396 Just cause you were lucky doesn't make it a bad idea. You probably smoke when filling your tank too. I have seen people do that.
Not just the Pinto. Mustangs used the fuel tank as the trunk floor. This is why a divider behind the back seat is recommended on this car, to prevent fuel from a ruptured fuel tank from getting into the passenger compartment. It also incidentally stiffens the unibody, improving the ride.
@@davezul4396yeah I drove an old Chevy for years that had the tank right behind the seat.....
@@timradde4328I remember working in the gas station as a kid, flip the license plate down, filling the tank smoking a Camel.... Dude started going on about if his car blows up, I started laughing, dude, if this car blows up, neither of us are going to care.
I miss the dimmer switch for headlights being on the floor next to your left foot. It took me awhile to get used to using a lever on the steering wheel.
My grandpa has an old Pontiac with the water bumpers, he said it was rare. Turns out from the numbers I just witnessed, they're Extremely Rare!
Those mechanical push buttons on radios could sprain a finger. LOL.
Check the gas and refill the bumper. Ankle restraints with a sun roof prevented getting ejected accidentally
In 86 i had a 59 chevy stepside pickup with all metal dash. All metal interior, actually. Gas tank behind the seat that leaked if you filled it too the rubber hose fitting. If it came stock with seatbelts, they weren't there when i bought it. Had built in step inside the door. Kept me and my girl from getting busted with a half case by hiding it in the passenger side step. Damn i loved that truck!
The 2-point seat belt was not as bad as he implied. In fact one saved my life in a 70 mph rollover, I was not driving.
I guarantee there'd be a lot less speading tickets if those neck seatbelts was still around. 😂
“Tucker popularized…” Tucker sold fewer than 100 cars, so they did not popularize much.
Tucker was put out of business by the big 3 colluding with gov't (what is known as "standard practices" today) put Tucker out of business before he could get started. Then for years they developed his ideas and marketed them as their inventions.
You're clueless too .. look at how many features it had that others suddenly started putting into their cars!!!
@@trance9158 There’s a not too cogent remark. Disc brakes were one of Tucker’s most important safety features on the 48 (AKA Torpedo),a total of 51 cars. Lanchester actually invented automotive disc brakes in 1902. Crosley also adopted disc brakes in 1949 and sold 84,000 cars. The nod for driver of innovation could go to Crosley. Preston Tucker was sort of a WW-II era version of Elon Musk, but with a lot less money, and that ultimately got Tucker in trouble with the SEC, sending his company into bankruptcy.
Honorable mention goes to the 1949 Chrysler Imperial which had a form of disc brake, very unlike the familiar caliper disc brake, developed by Homer Lambert of Ausco Mfg.
😊@@trance9158
@@wtmayhew This entire video was full of errors.
Fun to see the original California Special Mustang.
there's some really funny lines in here
All of these innovations because they can't do the one thing that would fix it all.
Teach people to drive.
And stop making them like living rooms with TVs and stuff. Cars should be scary with spikes that poke you when you get too close to another car.
I love this
Non preventable accidents will always exist,I like the safety features of modern cars.
@@giovannisocci8793 There are no accidents...only becauses. Cars crash BECAUSE somebody did something wrong.
That was a common philosophy of driving when I first learned to drive. The best way to survive an accident was to not have an accident.
@@yourhandlehere1or something broke on the car or a tree or rock falls in front of them suddenly or a tornado hail storm ..
New memory foam bumpers absorbs impacts soften bumps.
Ballistic gel filled bumpers. Or airbags.
My father (who would now be 109 years old if he were still alive) refused to wear safety belts, insisting that he could just "hang on to the steering wheel" in the event of a crash. Even at the age of 10, I knew he was completely unfamiliar with the forces involved. See, he was a lawyer, & thought he knew everything about everything.
WAAAAAAAAAY back in the 20th century!!!😅🤣😂😅🤣😂
Never knew or saw bumper guards with water,,nor the neck belts. You showed us a late 80's Lincoln Town car,,but showedd the Pinto,,Lincoln Town cars and Ford Crown Vic suffered tthe same rear collision explosion
I love the hood ornaments. Ome thing I mmiss the locking brakes in cars and themn. You hear the bang!
The Checker had water bumpers as an experiment, but they were on the road.
Put on your neck belts, its going to be a bumpy ride!
Imagery: "ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! Wow! That sure was some WASHBOARD-Y gravel!"
Mom's hand was a seatbelt, the dash was steel and the 3 speed transmission changed directions with push buttons. A big V-8 made it quick, 1964 Chrysler station wagon.
As drive-by-wire becomes more common, swing-away steering wheels could easily make a comeback.
They never completely disappeared. It's just that most modern cars are designed to allow comfortable entry and exit without moving the wheel.
Some current BMWs will automatically move the wheel out of the way to allow easier entry and exit. But that's a luxury component most people won't buy.
A steer-by-wire wheel is actually less compact than a traditional mechanical one, if the actuator is in the wheel.
The headrest saved my life ... When I just got my driving license I was in the search of my first car. By then being just a student I didn't have as much money as I do now so I was in search for a very cheap second hand car. Many old cars didn't have headrests ... But I insisted to keep searching until I found one with headrests for both driver and passengers.... This is because I remembered a story from my dad when he was little, there was a light accident when a car hit another one from behind that was being stopped at a trwffic light. The car didn't get much damage but the unfortunate driver didn't have a headrest, so that little impact was enough to snap his neck and he died instantly😞... Being so shocked by this story I was persistent into getting a car with all headrests installed.
One year later, I was stopping at a pedestrian crossing, when behind me there was a car that came at high speed and the driver texting on his phone didn't have time to react and impacted my car so strongly that my car was, just having stopped, in a split second was lounched a car length forward.... It was so sudden and unexpected, my head was projected back and hit the headrest so hard I got dizzy , darkened vision and vertigo. Hadn't I had the headrest , I would have died instantly. Thank you headrest, a wonderful safety invention😊
Some cars didn't need headrests as they had high backrests. Headrests on the back seats just impaired vision through the back window.
That's why they are head restraints, not head rests. Just another error in the vid.
When he got to the red metal dashboard of the VW bug, it brought back the memory of me flying forward in a head on collision all the way from the "way way back" behind the rear seat and slamming my head into the metal just above the radio. Because of my light weight and my age, I didn't really get more than a small bump on the head. But the car was totalled and I was pretty shaken up.
So strange I did not have abs braking until my 2011 Chevrolet Impala. My 2004 Pontiac Grand Am did not have it nor my 1989 Mazda MX6 before that. At least they all had air conditioning. 😏
my 73 nova has the spring behind the bumper on it.and the lab belt with optional shoulder belt 74 they all are now one piece. some of these never heard they made or had. needed to add the steering wheel to tilt and now the telescope steering. try driving with it engage. a ride for your life
I have personally been involved in an accident that had the steering column shoot into the driver's seat. Fortunately, I had been slammed sideways into the passenger seat and it missed me entirely. This also made me look into the different levels of safety that seatbelts actually had.
A lot more cars than the Pinto have gas tanks behind the rear axle. That have not had the same problems. I had a pinto and it never blew up.
@ffwest12 - I'm presuming you never got rear ended. That was the catalyst for the explosion.
The problem was not the position, it was the pointed piece of structural steel between the tank and bumper that ripped the tank open upon a hard impact. Ford’s internal memo calculated the expected loss from claims, vs the estimated cost to change the design, and found it didn’t pay to fix it. The Government forced them into a consent decree.
So, because YOU never had it blow up, it wasn't bad? Foreign cars had similar designs BUT built them correctly as to position(s). THEY saw the problem and positioned them in different places. Ford blew it and simply got caught. If you got rear ended in your dent free Pinto, you probably wouldn't be here commenting.
I always wondered about bumper bars that were at different heights above the ground. Every make had their own idea about how high they should be. In a collision they might not even touch making them useless.
I had a 65 T-bird with the swing away steering wheel. I would have been good except that Ford made the latch out of pot metal. Non repairable and a replacement was very expensive and then became unavailable. While driving down the road it would come loose and controlling the car was difficult
Monte Carlo had swivel drivers seats instead of the swing away column to exit and enter their cars for a couple of years.
@@mlt6322 Proof in the American car makers faith that the girth of the American public would continue to increase. Have you gone to the beach recently? What used to be rare is now the standard with the bathing suits getting smaller and the overhang getting larger.
Ford specializes in design obsolescence on purpose to rake you in the parts replacement dept. Still goes on today.
Ford specializes in design obsolescence on purpose to rake you in the replacement parts dept. Still goes on today. Ford fix or replace daily.😢
My first car was a 65 T Bird, with a broken slide steering column. It wouldn't latch in the normal driving position. Needless to say, that driving was interesting back then at age 15. I've come a long way since then. Now my self driving Volvo does the work, while I sit back enjoying the view, a cigarette and a beverage. 😂
Rear quarter panel wings of the 50s and 60s were notoriously as one could find themselves impaled by them
yeah crazy how everyone drove in reverse back then😂
If you were impaled by a rear wing of a car of the 50's, it was beacuse you were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown through the windshild in a higher speed impact... and yes they were available... it was an option, but it did exist. Once my head broke through the thick winshield of the cars of the fifties, I don't think that I would be so much worried about the small possability of a rear fin of the car I just plowed into.
I miss hood ornaments, higher fender corners (it made it so much easier for parking you car when you could see all 4 corners, vent windows, chrome bumpers, lower door waists (you could drive around and comfortably rest your arm on the window sill with the window being open), lots of leg room, and a trunk big enough for 3 full size mafia bodies with room to spare for a couple of shovels and two pairs of gloves.
I don't miss carburetors, Delco AM radios, and lack of air conditioning.
I have a 32 ford truck with a pop out windshield. It was the defroster in the 30s.
Today the most dangerous feature within automobiles is cell phones.
I lost count of how many times the word safety was said
And how FEW TIMES 'government intrusion' was even hinted at.
I lost count of how many time he erroniously used the word safety.
Neck seat belts, I want one!!!
Great vid! I do believe that Volvo had the first standard lap AND shoulder belts in the early 60s.
In the mid-30s, Plymouth had a crank which opened the windshield, hinged at the top. It tended to leak, so they were often removed, and the windshield sealed.
The Grand Prix that you showed has an Endura nose that did absorb very light impacts. It was also availabke on the 1970.Pontiac GTO. SO...the fact that yiure calling one thing (Endura nose - existed) as a water filled bumper (doubt its existence) has me woundering about your video.
Non collapsibke steering columns - true.
Swing away steering wheels - true. There are new cars where the steering column moves up when the vehicle is turned. off.
- pop out windshields - never part of a VW Bug. May have been part of a Tucker, but ONLY 48 Tuckers were EVER sold.
- metal dashboards - true, especially in trucks.
- lap seat belts - true. The seat belts like we have now started in 1970 on most cars, though Volvo had them in the late 50's. Car makers did have the two separate belt pieces in the 60's, where the shoulder harness was usually folded up above the door and swcured by hooks. The ones we have today were mandatory starting in 1970 with new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
-crumple zones - true. Not mandatory until the 90's era however in all vehicles
- unsafe fuel tanks - true. Gas tanks were also under truck seats too.
- no ABS - true.
- hood ornaments - dangerous for pedestrians mainly.
- lack of headrests - true. Mandated in 1970. Volvo did make them earlier
The itens above are true. Others on your list are suspect, like the water bumpers. I have called then out in other comments.
The Checker had water bumpers, but these were the WHOLE bumper. They looked funny, but they were there.
13:40 Lap belts were still in use for the centre rear passenger of cars well into the 2000s.
I recall on my 8th birthday receiving a lap-belt as a birthday gift because our cars were not equipped with one for me sitting in the back seat, of our Caddy, and Buick as well as the middle seat in our pickup truck. (mid 60s).
I remember the back seat tether that allowed me to fully lay down and sleep in either the back seat or the back of the station wagon. It also had a huge whip antenna for my father’s portable ham radio.
Cool info, however I do not think the swing away feature (T Bird) ever caused any injury nor fatality.
school busses still have pop out windshields just not optional they stay till they got to go then they can be pushed out easily
Here are some other safety things on cars that have changed. Hydraulic brakes and duel master cylinders' were major safety innovations. With a single master cylinder if a brake like blew you'd have no brakes. Cars no longer have "suicide doors". Hood latches need to be unlatched from inside the car. I had a 74 Nova. One day the hood flew open while driving on the highway. The gas fill for a lot of old cars was behind the rear license plate. The A pillars of cars are much stronger these days and doors have metal all around the windows. This makes cars much safer in a roll-over. Cars built in the 60s would crush when they rolled over. Tempered laminated glass was a major improvement.
The strong A-pillar is a mixed blessing. Yes it can save your life if the car rolls over. It can also hide a pedestrian or motorcyclist in the wrong place at the wrong time, leading to a fatal collision.
Overall they are a good thing because they save now lives than they kill, but they are far from ideal
Considering inaccuracies in this video, is it another IA creation?
I thought the neck seatbelts were a joke! The onion or Babylon bee did a bit on those a couple years back! 😂