I've put the seat all the way back and taken a nap while riding in a car many times. It never once occurred to me that the car manufacturer made a seat that could be put in a position hat rendered the seat belt useless.
Isn't it obvious that if your seat is all the way back and there is a collision you will slide right under the belt?
Tip of the day: Never try to kiss a Great White.
The owner's manual warns against that.
We all have.
"It never once occurred to me that the car manufacturer made a seat that could be put in a position hat rendered the seat belt useless."
In [that] instance, perhaps.
But I can assure you the passenger would not have been thrown from the car regardless the seat position, and isn't that really what seat belts were designed to do.
Right?
Keep bodies "in" automobiles?
So some off-the-wall thing like this happens & the "victim" is awarded $16.5 million?
Who do you suppose will *pay* that judgment?
Ford?
HA!!
Won't be long before a chunk of blue ice will hit a moving vehicle, killing one or both occupants.
Means steel roofs y'know, and that's really gonna screwup CAFE standards. :o)
Of course that "safety" improvement comes last, after the $16.5 million award is paid by all of us who purchase & drive automobiles.
After all we're all not only gonna live forever, it's a *right*, one that's *guaranteed*.
...& you can bet the shysters will see to that.
(In case of vehicle fire, or other painful event, driver must move off smartly to seek help. Do not tape passenger arms to passenger sides. Do not tape cellular telephonic device in an inacessible pocket.)
*available at your Ford Dealer.