Padded dashboard

Automobile engineers have been aware of these problems for a long time. They have made a series of design improvements to lessen the potential problems associated with front-end impact. Smooth switches rather than knobs, recessed hardware, and padded dashboards are examples. These changes, coupled with the use of lap and shoulder belts, which help to immobilize occupants of the car, have decreased the frequency and severity of the impact and lowered the death rate for this type of accident. 

Interiors have many design feamres to reduce the sources of injury. Padded dashboards that distribute forces. 

Use energy-absorbing materials. Examples are breakaway signs on highways and padded dashboards in cars. 

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