"Some experts want drivers to wear crash helmets"

[forddeliveryboy]

A look at the dangers of car driving 49 years ago. I particularly like the anti-lock brake system fitted to the motorbike. Manufacturers must have been shuddering at the thought of all this expense. Good job the great British pubic didn't worry about safety until someone starting applying a number to every car, related to safety, in the 90s. Up until then, Saabs, Mercs and the like who designed with it in mind were just weird. Some good footage of LandCrabs and Rover 2000s.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkN2Rr1Ol7Y

 

Comments interesting:

 

[Junkman]

Not only was the Rover P6 damn well designed for maximum passive safety, and employed countless clever features for occupant protection, it was also styled with a view to car vs. person safety, an industry first, hence the hidden wipers, rounded leading edge of the bonnet, and recessed headlights. When launched in 1963, it was more advanced in this aspect, than anything contemporary Scandinavian or German chod had to offer.

[mercrocker]

Absolutely......I was 7 years old when my grandfather bought one.  I was completely oblivious to the meaning of the safety report  published by MIRA at the time but copied it word  for word into a Winfield (Woolworths!) sketch pad in my best handwriting because  I was so smitten with the car.    I still have it and it still makes perfect sense.   We could have  stopped the clock in 1963 and the world would  be no  worse  off.....

[vulgalour]

...except for the fact that many top shiters had not yet been born.  Extend the date cut off to at least 1984 if you would but perhaps not as far as 1992.