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bane5454 t1_iu8g8n1 wrote

Reply to comment by cozworthington in Revisiting the great exploding trousers epidemic of the 1930s by marketrent

Not quite today, but… lead in gasoline up til 1995. Also an honorable mention is modern vehicle safety, as the crumple zone in vehicles used to be whatever poor souls happen to be in the car at the time. Head on collision? Hope the passenger doesn’t mind having an engine ejected onto their lap. :/

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ArkyBeagle t1_iue1po5 wrote

I always liked the driver having a spear ( the central bar in the steering column ) pointed at their thorax.

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