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Head restraint in a Lincoln Town Car. Head restraints (also called headrests) are an automotive safety feature, attached or integrated into the top of each seat to limit the rearward movement of the adult occupant's head, relative to the torso, in a collision — to prevent or mitigate whiplash or injury to the cervical vertebrae.
In 2000, Bobby Hutchens and Richard Childress along with two other individuals started Mattec Inc. [11] That year, Trevor Ashline began developing the device. [4]Following the death of Dale Earnhardt in the Daytona 500 in February 2001, many NASCAR drivers began voluntarily wearing head-and-neck restraint devices such as the HANS device and the Hutchens device.
A HANS device (head and neck support device) is a type of head restraint and a safety device in motorsports. Head restraints are mandatory when competing with most major motorsports sanctioning bodies. They reduce the likelihood of head or neck injuries, including the often fatal basilar skull fracture, in the event of a crash. There are many ...
The easiest way to escape zip-tie restraints, as shown in the video above, is by using your shoelaces instead. In the clip, the man bound by zip-ties demonstrates how to free himself of the ...
Safety harnesses have restraints that prevent the wearer from falling from a height. By wearing the belt or harness the risk of injury from a fall is greatly reduced. The harness allows the user to attach themselves to an object that is stationary, ensuring they will not hit the ground in the event of a possible fall.
A WHIPS equipped seat is designed so that the entire backrest helps to protect the front occupant's neck in a case of a rear impact. When the system is deployed, the front seat backrests and headrests are lowered backward to change the seating position of the driver and front seat passenger. [4]
Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Friday as investors held back after a rally in the previous session that was sparked by an oversized interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 and ...
A traditional form of plastic handcuffs are cable ties, consisting of two interlocking straps or a single cable tie around both wrists.More recently, plastics-manufacturing companies have started to produce special devices comprising two interconnected straps as one item.