It doesn’t start with the seat, it starts with a mandatory air bag system which will literally decapitate your kid if you sit them in the front.
There was a story some years back where exactly that happened to a baby.
“It doesn’t start with the seat, it starts with a mandatory air bag system which will literally decapitate your kid if you sit them in the front.”
Even. back in the ‘50s we knew kids ride in the back.
Besides, the shotgun seat has a weight setting for the airbag.
I think you nailed it. The air bags made it dangerous to be in a car without using seatbelts with shoulder restraints. Prior to the advent of mandatory airbags, seatbelts use was pretty much optional. Same goes for child safety seats. They are a way of ‘packaging’ a small person so the darned airbag doesn’t kill them in a minor fender-bender. Then you throw-in the fact that cars are so small, and designed to sacrifice themselves to protect the passenger making the entire design philosophy irreversible.
Rear seating lead to kids left in hot cars to cook to death.
Simple fix, computer chip reminding you to check rea seat, our Malibu has it. Doesn’t go by weigt, but you opened rear door and put anything in rear seat.