I need help with a paper on car safety features?

Todd R

What you are doing is a very interesting subject so I will help yo find some really good information. Here is something I found on Wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipeida.org/wiki/Car_safety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Car_safety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Automotive_safety_technologies
all three of these links will give more informantion than you can handle but what you are looking for. Hope this helps and sounds like you are interested in automotive safety.

melon.chaser

maybe type in "safety features of a car"

suggestions:
locks
alarms
air bag
placement of airbag
car rating
evolution of cars

Tuff D

Focus on one safety feature such as air bags, seat belts or anti lock brakes. If you are talking to teens then i would go with seat belts (since most don't like to wear them) and start with statistics. Talk about development, laws, lives saved during crashes by the safety device. Wikipedia.org has a good page on seat belts and links to government and other related websites. End your speech with a common seat belt slogan (Click it or ticket, seat belts save lives, etc.) if you choose to speak on seat belt safety.

Vorhees a jolly good fellow

Car safety features have evolved a great deal over the last 60 years.

In the 40's cars had very little in the way of safety devices. Probably the only thing on these cars that helped with safety was headlights and brake lights, so that drivers were able to see at night and other road users could see when drivers were stopping.

In the 50's some cars were fitted with a device called (in some countries) trafficators (google it, may be different where you live) and they were a reflective metal level that was usually mounted on the B pillar of the car, and worked on a switch, it worked like todays turn signal does, but instead of a flashing light, a reflective metal bar appeared on the appropriate side.

Cars were also built stronger, as there were more and more cars on the road and car crashes were becoming a common thing. This was also for safety.

In the 60's most cars were fitted with seatbelts as well as electric turn signals. Some cars also were fitted with safety glass, or laminated glass, so that if the window was smashed, instead of shards of glass busting out, the glass would stay together.

70's saw many new safety features on some cars. Some European cars were fitted with 4 wheel disc brakes, which helped cars stop more effectively.

80's saw electronic technology introduced, such as anti lock brakes, which again reduced braking distances.

90's lead to many technological breakthroughs, like airbags becoming standard on most cars, traction control, etc. The inclusion of side intrusion bars in doors, etc.

6-sick-6

individual search these... rev limiter, speed governor or engine cut off, air-bags, anti lock breaks, alarms, & now cars come with airbags on the door windows as well

when i was a kid i would see cars that where built with no seat belts lol...car safety has come along way...

& the computer tells you when something is messing up in you engine

UCANTCME

Try this site.......

http://www.allpar.com/ed/safety.html

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