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The Billion Dollar Plot to Kill the Seatbelt
The Billion Dollar Plot to Kill the SeatbeltIn this episode of The Car Nerd, Jason investigates the dark, forty-year conspiracy by the American auto industry to suppress the single most effective lifesaving device in history: the seatbelt.It wasn't just negligence—it was a calculated decision. We take you inside the 1950s boardrooms where executives explicitly weighed the cost of chrome bumpers against human lives. We expose the "Nut Behind the Wheel" propaganda campaign, a brilliant piece of corporate psychological warfare designed to convince the public that cars were perfect and drivers…
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