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If Waymo's safety record holds, we can hope for a world with sufficiently-few crashes that car seats become unnecessary.

• seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  Good luck getting states to change their laws anytime soon. Ironically enough, car seats aren’t required on buses not because they aren’t needed, but they would cut off the poor with kids completely from transportation.
  • aplummer 9y ago
    Also probably helps that public buses are really really safe statistically.
  • Fricken 9y ago
    The driver is regulated at the state level. Safety standards for vehicles are regulated federally.
• koolba 9y ago
  They’re already statistically unnecessary for toddlers on up: http://freakonomics.com/2005/07/09/more-evidence-on-car-seats-vs-seat-belts/ http://freakonomics.com/2005/07/09/more-evidence-on-car-seat...