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When were safety belts first used?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It is reported some physicians installed them in their own vehicles in the 1930s

but they didn't become standard in vehicles until 1958, by Saab. Near the same time, Volvo also made them standard in their vehicles.

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