the government buckling you in because your survival instinct apparently needed legislation.
means laws requiring vehicle occupants to wear seatbelts, backed by fines, because voluntary compliance saved fewer lives than mandatory compliance.
from volvo patented the modern three-point seatbelt in 1959 and gave the design away for free to save lives; australia's victoria became the first place to mandate wearing one in 1970, and the rest of the world spent the next few decades arguing about personal freedom versus not dying.
click it or ticket — us nationwide enforcement campaign since 2003
new hampshire — only us state with no mandatory adult seatbelt law
uk 1983 law — made front seatbelts compulsory nationwide
victoria australia 1970 — world's first mandatory seatbelt law