Driver Cited For Using 30-Can Beer Pack As Toddler’s Booster Seat

CBS 64 Detroit ^ | July 11, 2019 | Staff

[Daffynition]

You are right. B4 seat belts, dad used to put out his arm tp hold us kids in the front seat; thankfully that didn't happen very often.

Then Detroit got safety conscious.

[Drew68]

Yeah, traffic deaths are down, way down from the pre-belt days. There's a lot of reasons for it, but the seat belts are a big part of it.

Seat belts undoubtedly save lives. There is, however, evidence that child booster seats provide no more safety to children than using adult seat belts and are only effective at preventing minor injuries.

There's even evidence to suggest that booster seats may be LESS safe for children than seat belts.

Booster seats would be entirely unnecessary if automakers were to reposition rear seat belts to be more accommodating to children as children are almost always the rear seat passengers in vehicles. Instead, rear seat belts are positioned for grown adults who rarely sit in the back seat.

Effectiveness of booster seats investigated

[Dr. Sivana]

Agree on all counts regarding booster seats. The requirements of child seats, booster seats until 80 pounds, high powered air bags in the front, have resulted in growing families that used to get by on a mid-sized sedan forced into minivans, cross-overs, SUVs, and full-seized vans. The number of children killed who were belted in the middle back seat was something like five per year. Those were probably accidents that would have killed them regardless of technology. They don’t need rear seat headrests, either. The policy makers think that they can get zero without making cars unbearably inconvenient or unaffordable. We get to suffer while they chase that dream.

[Dr. Sivana]

I love the old style child seat. Won’t work today because front benches don’t exist anymore. I started out life in a ‘61 Lancer. I had the deluxe seat, with integrated horn and steering wheel. Kept me from bothering my mother.

[Daffynition]

**front benches don’t exist anymore**

Ahem....yes they do;t have to buy a car from the 80s. :)

[Daffynition]

[dforest]

The stupid has no borders. Florida man is everywhere.

[Dr. Sivana]

The wagon from the '80s is a split bench. The car seat won't fit on one of those (gap in the middle). Ideally you would have a solid bench like in our four door Dodge Darts. (Here is a British car with a solid front bench):

[Daffynition]

I know my photos aren’t that great, but that it my daily driver, and it does have a full bench seat, front & rear; a nice arm rest is positioned midway.

It draws a lot of inquiries, when I go to town for errands. I am surprised how many folks [ male & female] know so much about cars from this era. Fun stuff.

[Lurker]

“Gas station water glasses and large jam jars were all I drank out of growing up.”

Grandma would make sure all the Mason jars matched when company came calling. Anything less was undignified.

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