Ford's New Seatbelts Currently Illegal?
Read 64,354 TimesPosted Sep 8, 2006, 12:45 ET by Chris
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AutoWeek reports, "Four-point seat belts will be ready for production by the end of the decade, Ford Motor Co. says. But despite the promise of the new technology, the automaker won't yet say whether it will install the seat belts in its own production cars. Two issues yet to be addressed are adapting the new design for use by pregnant women and then changing federal standards, Rouhana says. Current standards now count four-point belts as illegal."

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