The biggest news this past week from the automotive industry, in terms of safety innovations at least, was Ford's announcement it has completed work on the world's first inflatable seat belts – a ...

advertisement 06-08-2010 TECH Children and Seniors Safer With Ford’s Inflatable Seat Belts Next time you stick grandma in the backseat of your 2011 Ford Explorer, take comfort in the fact that she ...

Blend one part seat belt with one part airbag, explode, and what have you got? Answer: the inflatable seat belt. Ford Motor Co. has developed the world’s first inflatable seat belts for rear seat ...

Every car is mandated to have seat belts and airbags to ensure safety for each passenger on the road, but Ford created the next step in seat belt technology when they installed an inflatable seat belt ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

Inflatable seat belts have been around for a few years but they're just starting to gain international traction now—and soon they may be a common feature in almost all new cars. The groundbreaking ...

Ford's industry-exclusive rear inflatable seat belts -- one of the 2011 Explorer's breakthrough safety innovations that helped nearly triple the vehicle's March sales -- earned the 2011 Traffic Safety ...

Most seat belts are designed to stretch during a crash to reduce the force of impact on the wearer while still preventing contact with the interior of the vehicle. Ford has gone one step further with ...

Since 2010, Ford Motor Co. has offered a proprietary inflatable seatbelt for its Explorer sport utility vehicles (SUV), Flex crossover, Fusion sedan, as well as on the Lincoln MKT and MKZ luxury ...

FORD Motor Co. is the first automaker to bring an “inflatable seat belt” to market. The concept of a folded bag within a belt is so simple it could start a trend in the auto industry. The new belts ...

After 10 years of research and development, Ford is unveiling inflatable seat belts. This is a potentially ground breaking innovation in safety aimed at better protecting people in the second and ...