Do you know the history of the machine you use every single day of your life? Most likely you don´t. But most importantly, the history of its safety. The car as we know it was created in 1870 by Siegfried Marcus, who built the first gasoline powered combustion engine. Through time cars have suffered a whole lot of changes which some are more important than other, like safety. Some examples are the Seat belt which was invented by English engineer George Cayley in the mid-19th century and the Air bag which was invented by John W. Hetrick in 1951. In this essay we are going to be discussing the importance of safety and touch some sensible spots on the corrupt Mexican government by accepting and producing cars which don´t pass the minimum safety requirements The first experimental seatbelt was installed in 1948 and this safety requirements weren’t common until 1950s to …show more content…
First of all, Airbags. It is unbelievable that in 2018 we still have to be worrying about how many airbags are on our cars. In the United states you pay for luxury, safety is always top priority since the first version of the vehicle. While in Mexico we live a very different reality, we pay for safety and luxury, how come the first version of our cars only have 1 airbag when in USA they have at least 4 to 5? This speaks allot of our government and its bendable laws. Then, seatbelts. Right now, every car has seatbelts in all of its rows but is fairly new. I remember when I went on vacation to Ciudad del Carmen around 2008 and we rented a car. This car was a Chevrolet Aveo, this car had no seatbelts on the back seats. Now let´s move to ESC or Electronic Stability Control. I see that allot of the American cars that are sold here in Mexico have that problem, they are always lacking in their lowest versions. This technology helps avoid crashes by a 25% on single car crashes and a 51% in single 4WD crashes. How can you avoid adding a technology which will