Yeh - pretty hard to argue against safety features (as long as it works and doesn't add weight I guess).
Poor ol Henry - He was probably pretty disappointed when they decided to make cars out of steel too.
He actually started making car panels etc out of hemp products (1925 ??)- distilled fuel from the seeds to power them as well.
He was a climate change activist before there was such a thing
Farkin Dupont, Harry J. Anslinger, William Randolph Hearst et al