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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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

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 ...