As he had long felt that the safety measures he was developing for military aircraft should also be used for civilian automobiles, Stapp also campaigned for the installation of seat belts and other safety features in American cars.

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Thousands of kids are killed or injured each year in crashes resulting from improper car-seat use or installation, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration further reporting 33 fatalities last year from heatstroke as a result of children being inadvertently left in cars (we can only assume the latter occurred while their parents were too busy talking on their smartphones to notice).

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