Retrospective on 1980s Car Seats A Nostalgic Look at Enhanced Safety

Remember this car seat from the early 1980s? Car seats sure have changed since then! #KeepEachOtherSafe #TechsRule #carseat #safety The '60s marked the beginning taking car seat safety seriously. American Leonard Rivkin (seen above) created a seat that featured a metal frame ... Unbelievably, my Boomer father brought my old car seat from the early 80s down to the fire department for an “inspection” to see if it was ... Prior to the 1960s, car seats were mostly designed to keep kids contained in the car, and help them see out the window. However, by the 1960s, ... Over the past 50 years, car seats (referred to as safety seats, child restraint systems or CRS in ... victories, in the early-1980s, child safety advocates became ... ... cars of the 1980, they had the best overall safety record because they are typically not driven as fast or as recklessly as other vehicles. And more and more parents have faced this constraint over time: Car-seat laws only began in the 1980s, but today, the average U.S. state doesn't ... In the early 1980s the R44 child car seat regulation was introduced. There have been several amendments over the years, the most recent one ... Better car seats followed once the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued the most minimum of car seat safety standards in 1971 ... General Motors' "Child Love Seat," introduced in 1967, became a model for future child car seats and helped inspire states to pass safety seat laws starting in ...