Editing Seat belt (section)

=== Efficacy ===
In 2001, Congress{{clarify|date=January 2024}} directed NHSTA{{who|date=January 2024}} to study the benefits of technology meant to increase the use of seat belts. NHSTA found that seat belt usage had increased to 73% since the initial introduction of the SBR system.<ref name="Federal" /> In 2002, Ford demonstrated that seat belts were used more in Fords with seat belt reminders than in those without: 76% and 71% respectively. In 2007, Honda conducted a similar study and found that 90% of people who drove Hondas with seat belt reminders used a seat belt, while 84% of people who drove Hondas without seat belt reminders used a seat belt.<ref name="SWOV" />

In 2003, the Transportation Research Board Committee, chaired by two psychologists, reported that "Enhanced SBRs" (ESBRs) could save an additional 1,000 lives a year.<ref name="Buckle">{{cite journal |url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec03/seatbelt.aspx |vauthors=Dingfelder SF |date=2003 |title=Your car says: 'buckle up' |journal=Monitor on Psychology |volume=34 |issue=11}}</ref> Research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that Ford's ESBR, which provides an intermittent chime for up to five minutes if the driver is unbelted, sounding for 6 seconds then pausing for 30, increased seat belt use by 5 percentage points.<ref name="Buckle" /> Farmer and Wells found that driver fatality rates were 6% lower for vehicles with ESBR compared with otherwise-identical vehicles without.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Farmer CM, Wells JK |year=2010 |title=Effect of enhanced seat belt reminders on driver fatality risk |journal=Journal of Safety Research |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=53–57 |pmid=20226951 |doi=10.1016/j.jsr.2009.11.001}}</ref>