Three-point seat belts were first introduced by the automaker, back in 1959; rear-facing child seats arrived in 1972; ...

Nils Bohlin, the inventor of the three-point seat belt, a standard safety device ... The lap-and-shoulder belt invented by Bohlin was introduced by car maker Volvo in 1959. Its use is now required ...

Months of research ultimately led him to the three-point belt as we know it, with anchor points arranged in a sideways V. Volvo immediately made the seat belt patent available to all other ...

In 1958, the late Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point safety belt for cars. It's estimated to have saved more than one million lives around the world. Show more In 1958 ...

Three-point seat belts were invented by Nils Bohlin, a Volvo engineer in the late 1950s. By mid-1959, Bohlin's invention was used in Volvos sold throughout Europe and was added to U.S. Volvos in ...

Volvo’s reputation is built around safety. It’s the source of many safety innovations, including the three-point seat belt ...

Nils Bohlin is the little-known Volvo engineer who invented the V-type three-point ... to encourage mass adoption and to save lives. The 3-point safety belt has saved hundreds of thousands ...

Volvo says the operation of the multi-adaptive belt is based on a database of more than 80,000 occupants involved in collisions, and over-the-air updates will help the brand refine it over time.