Author Archive: Eric San Juan

Contributed Posts Over the years, drivers have gotten used to improvements in safety. The very first cars didn’t even have seatbelts, but then things started to change, and people began demanding to be safer on the road. By the time the 1990s rolled around, cars already had a plethora of safety equipment on board, including, importantly, driver and passenger airbags. But despite these well-publicised improvements, more than 40,000 people were still dying on America’s roads every year. So what’s made the difference in safety over the years? Steel is one obvious example. Although steel has been in mass production for over 200 years, medal makers continue to refine it at a surprising pace. Go back to the 1960s, and cars were nearly indestructible, thanks to…
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