The preslector gearbox

[nasadowsk]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Yeah, Daimler-Benz started focusing on vehicle safety not long after the shooting stopped in 1945.

Oddly, at both the Deutsches Museum (Munich) and the Benz Museum (Stutgart), both exhibits talked about the Americans being ahead in safety research after the war. Which struck me as weird coming from the US. Then again, we did have highway research, Jersey Barriers, etc come around back then, and GM, Ford, et al did smash a lot of instrumented cars, even if the production stuff were deathtraps.

(And even today, the X frame is controversial...)