Comments on: Safety of Child Seats

By: etbe

etbe — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:07:12 +0000

nastursim: I agree that baloo has demonstrated a bad attitude. In my previous comment I chose to just focus on the technical issues related to the difficulty of avoiding collisions.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html

According to the CIA world fact book, only 18.8% of the Australian population are in the 0-14 age range. So children comprise a small portion of the population – and the ones who need child seats would be a fraction of that.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html

There are parts of the world where children form a larger part of the population, for example 44.7% of the Somali population are in the 0-14 age range. But I don’t think that getting an adequate car seat is a problem that Somali parents face.

By: nastursim

nastursim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:50:25 +0000

Baloo: you are obviously a very immature person and never had the privilege of loving a child of your own, otherwise, you would give a fuck if they made it to adulthood. How appalling to have such an attitude, maybe you should have been one that never did make it to adulthood. There are a lot of idiots on the road, you probably being one as you believe you are invincible, and we cannot predict what the other driver will do. I agree that a better way need to be developed to make children safer in cars, as they do make up a huge majority of the population, and they are our future. People seem to be more interested in there pockets than children’s safety, and if they had one standard and one main production line, people would not be confused and putting little lives at risk. It does make sense to make a system that better protects our children, and not just ourselves in the car.

By: Baby Seats at NeoCarz

Baby Seats at NeoCarz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:32:30 +0000

[...] Russell Coker wrote a post about the baby seat safety, so I figured I’m post up my two cents. First off, my wife and I just recently had our first child, and we got one of the travel systems – a stroller / infant car seat combination. It works great – we both have bases in our cars and can bring the baby in either one without too much trouble. [...]

By: etbe

etbe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:53:11 +0000

baloo: Avoiding crashes is a good idea, unfortunately there is no shortage of idiots on the roads, and the road quality and signs are sometimes lacking so even if you are a perfect driver you will still have a risk of collision.

By: baloo

baloo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:52:03 +0000

Better than a booster seat is a good driver. If you don’t get into wrecks, you don’t need restraints. Not that I advocate people letting children roam around unsecured in a vehicle, just that it doesn’t make sense to be overprotective of children in this day and age. If they don’t make it to adulthood, so fucking what? It’s not like there isn’t 8 billion other people already on this planet.

By: etbe

etbe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:22:10 +0000

Me: ISOFIX only has two attachment points and allows the seat to move.

Don: Rear facing seats in general offer advantages. Some child car seats advise that they are not to be fitted in rear facing seats, I guess it’s because of the rear-end collision issue that Steven refers to. But I guess child seats according to Steven’s design which face backwards (or 2+ yo children in regular rear-facing adult seats) would work well.

Good point about a kilt or skirt. But I guess you could have a four-point seat belt that attaches around the waist and over both shoulders, that should be better than a three-point belt but also allow a wider variety of clothing to be worn.

James: Yes. The entire car safety process is grossly flawed, the total lack of proper child and female crash-test dummies is the most obvious example.