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They were invented in Sweden as a safety device before the war. In the 1960s Volvo adopted the idea into their cars as a safety cable/belt in the event of a head-on collision. They thought the bicycle full harness (pictured above) was too much and went for the single cross-body belt/cable. Ford soon followed in the 1970s.
Nothing new under the sun.