CRASH: Ep 1: Carnage: Car Safety & Car Crashes: Pt 2: Alarming Fatalities in the 1950s
Posted by James on July 11, 2011 · 9 Comments
From the UK Documentary Series CRASH: Episode 1 of 3: Carnage. This episode gives a brief history of car safety, showing how our love of the car soon became tarnished by a massive road toll in the 1950s and 60s and the designed in faults and dangers that were killing and injuring motorists at speeds as low as 10mph. The rise of consumerism in the 60s & 70s brought huge changes to the way automakers and governments thought about car safety and it is now a huge part of automotive engineering design. This episode also looks at some famous and infamous cars (the Mini, Corvair, Pinto) and many of the safety flaws in their design. In this episode: -Princess Diana Car Crash reconstruction (Part 1) -Alarming Fatalities of the 1950s (Part 2) -The Big 3, birth of car safety & the Mini (Part 3) -Uncontrollable Deaths, Ralph Nader, Corvair & Pinto (Part 4) -The Quest to improve car safety Seatbelts & Airbags (Part 5) -Safety Sells the 1980s & 1990s (Part 6) Episode 2: Fatal Attraction: Driver Behaviour and Human Error in causing crashes. Episode 3: What Happened?: The role of the Car Crash Detective Forensic reconstruction of fatal crashes.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
@myphonyaccount
why are you compared american with asian and europeans thats not fair land was taken stolen so thus a comparison would never equally win your a moron and stfu and go study before judging asia or europe
No old car protected in a 40 mph offset crash. Not American, European or Asian. There just weren’t strong government laws like today.
@myphonyaccount
No old American cars are crap, European and Japanese cars are fine. 😀
Jack Telnack Designer od the MN12 Chassis T-Bird & Cougar
Anyone else start quoting MST3K when Design for Dreaming played?
Old cars were crap. See IIHS 1959 chevy test.
Hey, I have a 4”-long version of the car at 1:13 in the same colour.
@3shacks1house true, but i still wouldn’t buy a modern car
A great post. As cool as some of these cars looked, they were complete death traps.! No seat belts, metal dashboards……Ouch!!