You’re Driving 90 Horses: This Late 1940s Driver Safety Video Made By AT&T Is Spectacular


You’re Driving 90 Horses: This Late 1940s Driver Safety Video Made By AT&T Is Spectacular

This is a true gem for anyone who appreciates old stuff. The name of this film is, “You’re driving 90 horses” and it was made by AT&T about 60 years ago to promote safe driving techniques among their repairmen and linemen who were in company vehicles every day. The footage of them cruising around, crashing, and just doing their jobs is awesome because it provides a great window into the world of driving not too far after WWII came to a close. The exact year is unknown but judging by the cars and trucks that you will see, we’re going late 1940s. The green AT&T telephone trucks of varying shapes and sizes are shown in all sorts of conditions and situations. There are plenty of staged crashes, near misses, and great scenarios shown here.

Between the scenes of what America looked like at that point and all of the message of safety from the narrator, we love it. The funny part is that the message and lessons taught in this video are still 100% valid today! The ideas of not tailgating, using caution when the weather gets bad, and all of that basic stuff still applies to today’s cars which are veritable space shuttles as compared to the iron shown here. Obviously the larger populace has not latched onto this stuff yet either because every day we see videos and stuff on the side of the road that has been bent to hell by someone who isn’t driving properly.

This is a fun watch and a fun window back into history. You’ll dig it!

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4 thoughts on “You’re Driving 90 Horses: This Late 1940s Driver Safety Video Made By AT&T Is Spectacular

  1. keezling lol

    So who here under 30 knows what AT&T stands for? (Part of the name is extinct) How about the 3M company? No fair asking your Dad. How ’bout KFC? Japanese transmission called a JATCO stands for what?

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