When did auto seat belts stop being mandatory?
When did auto seat belts stop being mandatory? When air bags became mandatory, most vehicles stopped offering automatic seat belts. The biggest exception is the Ford Escort / Mercury Tracer, as well as a few other models, which continued using automatic safety belts along with dual airbags in the 1995 and 1996 model years. Since then automatic seat belts have not been offered. Do you need a manual or automatic seat belt? A special seat belt modification is needed to use child seats in the front seats in vehicles fitted with this type of safety belt system. A subset of...