On 31/05/2010 8:12 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
On 5/31/2010 4:45 PM, William Robb wrote:
So Boris, how is forcing me to spend an extra couple of hundred dollars
or so on a new vehicle for a baby seat monitor that will never be used
going to protect me from someone else's stupidity?
How is someone doing a shake and bake on their infant by locking them in
a car going to harm me personally?
Well, I am not sure your car has it, but my sure does - it is called
ISOFix and it is a set of anchors (for lack of better word) that are
used in order to extra securely attach a child seat...
Yes, I am familiar with them. I have them in my truck, and in my wife's
car. She uses them to secure the dog kennel, I use them to secure my
toolbox.
Suppose, sir William that you have only a family of two, which as far as
I remember is the case for you. Now, tell me does it really help you to
have 2 air bags for special protection of rear seat occupants???
Neither of my vehicles have rear seat airbags, and in fact my truck no
longer has rear seats or seatbelts. I removed both to make it easier to
carry my dogs.
I am thinking that those air bags are way more expensive than the above
monitor. Yet, I don't recall hearing much protest from you or anyone
else on this.
Even if I don't have children, there is a good chance that I may well be
carrying rear seat passengers (not in my truck though) at some point.
IIRC, it's been pretty well documented that airbags can cause very young
children significant injury, which I believe is why car seats should go
into the vehicle facing backwards rather than forwards if there is an
airbag present on the seat.
When people toss numbers around like $10.00/ vehicle, they are blowing
smoke out their ass. When our government mandated daytime headlight use,
and forced manufacturers to put a device into vehicles that forced the
headlights on whenever the car was put in gear, it may have only been a
$10.00 component, but the cost to the consumer was a couple of hundred
dollars per car according to the Canadian Automobile Association at the
time the legislation was passed.
I agree. Bob W indicated that he wouldn't mind if it were an option.
However, I would add to Bob W's agreement a requirement of my own that
such a system would be available from any car manufacturer as an extra
cost option.
Again, you would do better to insist that it be an option on car seats,
not cars. As soon as it is an option on cars, it sill become a standard
feature at an extra cost to everyone, whether you need it or not.
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William Robb
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