Woven Restraint: The Open Patent That Saved Millions

In the fast-paced, high-profit world of mid-century automotive manufacturing, safety was considered a detriment to sales. Cars were beautiful death traps until Nils Bohlin, an aviation engineer recruited by Volvo, applied the physics of ejector seats to the everyday passenger vehicle. He invented the modern three-point seatbelt. What followed is one of the most astonishing business decisions in ...