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They are a safety feature in cars for the protection of vehicle occupants in the event of a collision. The first recorded patent in the U.S. was in 1951.
Airbags
Ralph Teetor, a prolific (and blind) inventor, invented the system in 1945 to set a steady speed for a car on the road.
Cruise Control
This engine uses the explosive combustion of fuel to push a piston within a cylinder. In 1876, Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the "Otto cycle."
Internal Combustion Engine
The first car with a cooling system for vehicle occupants was the 1940 model year Packard.
Air Conditioning
Daimler introduced these windows in cars in 1948.
Electric Windows
French inventor Eugene Houdry invented the catalytic muffler in 1950. It is a device that is fixed to the exhaust of a vehicle in order to reduce the amount of noise that the engine makes.
Muffler
In 1901, British inventor Frederick William Lanchester patented the disks to stop the car.
Brakes
It, initially a byproduct of kerosene, was discovered to be great fuel for all the new cars that began rolling off the assembly lines. By the early 20th century, the oil companies were producing it as a simple distillate from petroleum.
Gasoline
You fasten it around yourself so that you are not thrown out of the seat if there is an accident. The first U.S. patent for it was issued to Edward J. Claghorn of New York on February 10, 1885.
Seat belt
In 1929, American Paul Galvin, the head of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, invented it. It was not available from car makers and consumers had to purchase the it separately. Galvin coined the name "Motorola" for the company's new products combining the idea of motion and radio.
Car Radio
Canadian Thomas Ahearn invented it in 1890. It used for making air or water warmer.
Heater
It is a light on a vehicle that flashes to show that the vehicle is going to turn left or right. Buick introduced it first in 1938.
Turn Signal
The first one was Sierra Sam created in 1949. They were used in place of humans in simulated auto crashes to test the road safety of automobiles created for mass use.
Crash Test Dummies
Charles Kettering was the inventor of the first electrical starter motor _________ system.
Ignition
Prior to the manufacture of Henry Ford's Model A, Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for a window cleaning device in November 1903.
Windshield Wipers