
History of Car Safety - Episode 271
Unprofessional Engineering
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Introduction
The first recorded automobile fatality on August 31st, 1869 in Ireland. So that kind of brought awareness that there needs to be some safety for the people driving. In Ireland? Yeah. I think somebody probably got plowed down in the street by someone like going all of like 12 miles per hour. And it's kind of funny as you go through it when some of these things finally showed up. But some of them are really cool and a lot of great engineering goes into it.
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