I was told this story by a car nerd friend, and I won&#x27;t guarantee its accuracy (feel free to confirm or deny if you have more information.)<p>When Volvo began making cars, they were very beautiful, artistically designed instant classics, like this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;99&#x2F;b5&#x2F;39&#x2F;99b539384b296fa63a99d0f7c010ab03.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;99&#x2F;b5&#x2F;39&#x2F;99b539384...</a><p>The founder of the company was passionate about making and driving beautiful cars, and he succeeded and built a pretty impressive company on that. However, he didn&#x27;t pay much attention to safety, and died in a car wreck.<p>His wife inherited the company, and instead of selling off the assets and retiring, decided to take the helm and begin producing the safest cars possible. Ever since, they&#x27;ve been on the leading edge of safety development. The cars weren&#x27;t quite as pretty, but they didn&#x27;t kill as many people.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;d&#x2F;df&#x2F;1988-1991_Volvo_240_GL_station_wagon_%282011-06-15%29_01.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;d&#x2F;df&#x2F;1988-199...</a>