Career
Doctor Straith was a pioneer of Automobile safety. He described the cranial and facial injuries created by the dashboards and windshields in case of a car crash and advocated the use of seat belts and padded dashboards
According to Joel West. Eastman, author of Styling Versus Safety: The American Automobile Industry and the Development of Automotive Safety 1900-1966, University Press of America, ©1984,
Doctor Straith gained the attention of Walter P. Chrysler, and the knobs and handles of the 1937 Dodge were designed for safety.
Some of Straith"s ideas were to be incorporated into the 1948 Tucker Sedan.
