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I wonder if there are barf bags for the backwards-facing passengers.

• jen20 1y ago
  London Taxis have been configured this way since at least the 1950s and people don't seem to have any problem with it?
• shermantanktop 1y ago
  I routinely had 8+h drives in the rear-facing seat of my family's circa 1970 Plymouth Satellite station wagon growing up. Completely unsafe, and very boring, but I don't recall barfing. My sister and I would pass the time folding up a piece of paper and each of us got to draw part of a person without seeing what the other had drawn. Sort of like visual madlibs.
  • worik 1y ago
    > rear-facing seat of my family's circa 1970 Plymouth Satellite station wagon growing up. Completely unsafe, I am curious: Unsafe because a " 1970 Plymouth Satellite" or because "rear-facing seat"?
    • shermantanktop 1y ago
      Both, plus absence of seat belts. Rear facing with no head support is a good way to snap your neck if you are wearing a belt, but because we weren’t, we’d probably be flying forward to the windshield. https://www.automobile-catalog.com/img/pictonorzw/plymouth/1968-plymouth-satellite-sport-wagon-3.jpg https://www.automobile-catalog.com/img/pictonorzw/plymouth/1... Looking at that picture, I see belts, but I do not recall those belts and suspect they were deeply wedged into the seat and forgotten about.
  • arijun 1y ago
    Congratulations, you don't have motion sickness. I think that post was referring to those who do. For those people, rear-facing seats can exacerbate motion sickness. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000368701830629X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...
• cyberax 1y ago
  Plenty of transit all around the world has backwards-facing seats.
  • arijun 1y ago
    Yes but usually you know which seats will be rear-facing.