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Didn't Levitt and Dubner establish that a standard seatbelt would be safe enough to class as a car seat for children over 2 if they weren't explicitly banned by
by etothepii 6y ago
Didn't Levitt and Dubner establish that a standard seatbelt would be safe enough to class as a car seat for children over 2 if they weren't explicitly banned by law.
- goodcanadian 6y agoIIRC, what they claimed is that there was no statistically significant evidence that car seats for children over two (i.e. not infants) saved lives. I recall when I was young (before car seat laws), the car had shorter seat belts in the back. Almost as though they expected children to sit there . . .
- srtjstjsj 6y agoWhen you were young back seats has lap belts but not shoulder straps.
- goodcanadian 6y agoThat is true of the first car I remember, but the second had (child-sized) shoulder belts.
- saagarjha 6y agoWould you mind linking that if you have it around somewhere? It seems quite doubtful that a seatbelt would work on someone who isn’t even tall enough for the sash to go over their torso…
- JackFr 6y agoSomeone let the airlines know.
- saagarjha 6y agoBut those are lap belts, and also planes tend to have different issues than cars do.
- svrtknst 6y agoif you're riding planes that are at risk of >50kph impacts, you should probably move to a different airline
- _-___________-_ 6y agoAirline seatbelts are designed to restrain you from flying out of your seat in turbulence. They will do little to restrain your head from hitting the seat in front in a front-on impact, and have a good chance of causing injuries in any kind of impact. For that reason, if an impact is considered more likely than usual, you will be instructed to assume the brace position. (Note also that crew have proper harnesses.)
- freetime2 6y agoHere’s the paper: https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/doyle-levitt%20car%20seat%20injuries.pdf https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/doyle-levitt%... And here’s a pretty entertaining TED talk he gave: https://youtu.be/um5gMZcZWm0 https://youtu.be/um5gMZcZWm0
- huffmsa 6y agoI believe so. The single largest factor in survivability at any age is just being in the back seat, ie further Way from the impact.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoWay further from the windshield that opens to the pavement.