Transportation · Recorded milestone
Three-point seatbelt
Recorded year1959
Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin's design, released patent-free, has saved more than a million lives.
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- Ford Model TRecorded · 1908enables
Led to
- Car airbagRecorded · 1973enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.