This year marks the 50th anniversary of what is considered the world's most important safety innovation, the car seatbelt. Thursday, August 13 is the golden day for Volvo as the Swedish based car maker celebrates the fact that there is a bit of Volvo innovation is every car built in the world today.

This year marks 50 years since Volvo first introduced the three-point seat belt into their cars, a feature that is now standard in all cars across all brands in the world.

The seatbelt spread quickly throughout the world. Volvo initially patented this unique three-point belt but decided early on to release the patent to all car manufactures in order to save lives.

Today, three-point seatbelts are one part of an integrated protection that operates in conjunction with the car to provide optimal safety should an accident occur. One example is the belt load limiter, which acts on a signal from a collision sensor and tightens the belt against the body of the wearer if a collision occurs. The load limiter enables the belt to protect the wearer as early as possible.

The seatbelt will continue to play a central role in the future. It will only be once there are only cars that can never crash that it will be possible to discontinue use of car seatbelts. Volvo Cars is currently working on two tracks: to make the seatbelt and the system it is part of as safe as possible: and to facilitate seatbelt use for those in the car.

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