> I remember many of them showed the dummies falling out of the cars when they slammed into a wall and shocked everyone.
This reminds me of a short Simpsons bit from the 90s about crash-test dummies.
Edit: fixed typo
Correction: "…they would not be allowed to drink while…"
That’s how much propaganda we get in the USA.
Look up the automatic seat belt fad from the 80s and 90s. To make a long story short, there's a reason why they fell out of favor; you still had to manually put on your lap belt, and a lot of people who normally would wear their seat belt correctly didn't realize they had to wear a lap belt.
Also, no one wears seat belts in India. When a car came to pick me up, there was no seat belt in the rear seat. The driver had tucked them under the seat, so I made him pull them back out. As we drove along a semi-freeway, the center divider was giant potted plants instead of a guard rail. Good luck if you happen to drift into one of those without a seat belt.