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| - A seat belt, also known as a safety belt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the occupant of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop. A seat belt functions to reduce the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision by reducing the force of secondary impacts with interior strike hazards, by keeping occupants positioned correctly for maximum effectiveness of the airbag (if equipped) and by preventing occupants being ejected from the vehicle in a crash.
- Seat belts were invented in Australia in 1954 to prevent children from escaping from cars, as they predate the invention of the child safety lock, shock collar and superglue by a number of years. First introduced by car-maker Holden in the HQ 1956 model, it was accompanied by a series of early television advertisements featuring lower working-class/unemployed women driving to the local pub in the late morning, "belting" their kids into the car, then returning intoxicated to the vehicle in the evening to find them still present. These advertisements — and the seat belt in general — received extensive praise from safety organisations and child-welfare activists at the time for reducing the large number of lower-class children going missing and eventually being adopted by dingos or Brangelina
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| - A seat belt, also known as a safety belt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the occupant of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop. A seat belt functions to reduce the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision by reducing the force of secondary impacts with interior strike hazards, by keeping occupants positioned correctly for maximum effectiveness of the airbag (if equipped) and by preventing occupants being ejected from the vehicle in a crash.
- Seat belts were invented in Australia in 1954 to prevent children from escaping from cars, as they predate the invention of the child safety lock, shock collar and superglue by a number of years. First introduced by car-maker Holden in the HQ 1956 model, it was accompanied by a series of early television advertisements featuring lower working-class/unemployed women driving to the local pub in the late morning, "belting" their kids into the car, then returning intoxicated to the vehicle in the evening to find them still present. These advertisements — and the seat belt in general — received extensive praise from safety organisations and child-welfare activists at the time for reducing the large number of lower-class children going missing and eventually being adopted by dingos or Brangelina. Unfortunately, the purpose of the seat belt was widely misunderstood by middle-class whitey. This has been attributed to two main factors: 1.
* Over-design. Particularly perplexing to middle-class whitey was the extremely thick and strong nature of the seat belts their new car came equipped with, which generally led to the belief that it was for adult use. Unbeknownst to them, the original design specification had required the belt to be strong enough to withstand the worst-case "Dole Day" scenario. This scenario required that the belt withstand a wriggly, mullet-bearing white-trash child for up to 14 hours at a time on Dole Day (9am bank opening time to 11pm pub closing time). 2.
* Neglect. Middle-class whitey, despite their many, many, many faults as human beings, are known to be very good and attentive to their children so that they will grow up to doctors, lawyers, Uncyclopedia contributors, confidence fraudsters and chronic stoners. The concept of affixing their child to a car seat so they could go and get shit-faced was an entirely alien concept. After all, that's what babysitters are for. This widespread misunderstanding led to serious safety issues and is the second largest cause of death in human history, as distant second to wardrobe malfunction.
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