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How are people not wearing seatbelt? I've never seen a car that doesn't make a constant annoying noise if you're not wearing it while driving. Do they mod the c
by phito 10mo ago
How are people not wearing seatbelt? I've never seen a car that doesn't make a constant annoying noise if you're not wearing it while driving. Do they mod the car to disable this safety system? That seems too far stretched...
- scottyeager 10mo agoOlder cars don't have these systems. Also they are easy to bypass with a dummy buckle. There are counties where seatbelt usage is far less common than the US.
- crustaceansoup 10mo agoJust click the belt in with no one occupying the seat and sit on top of it.
- vel0city 10mo agoI never understood this though. It seems like more work and even more uncomfortable just to knowingly make things worse for yourself.
- eimrine 10mo agoEither O B E Y or do what you named as "more work". Different person chooses different way of dealing with annoyances.
- discreteevent 10mo agoDon't fool yourself. In the end you have to obey the laws of physics and the punishment is extremely harsh and permanent.
- vel0city 10mo agoI never agreed to be bound to some "law of conservation of momentum"! I'm a free person!
- eimrine 10mo agoI read comment as "don't resist our egregious power, our business is to keep becoming more powerful by arguments with different persuasive power". I have to admit, the car safety argument is among the most persuasive, like do you want to get harmed? But in reality the question is not about "harming and nothing more", the question is about growing the egregious power AND caring about the tax payers simultaneously.
- bluedino 10mo agoMany of them stop beeping for a while (or beep way less often)
- Brian_K_White 10mo agoSometimes you can change a setting in software with a programmer via the obd2 port. It's not "too far" it's easy. But even simpler is just a pacifier. Trivial.
- Mawr 10mo agoThen you've only ever seen fairly new, modern cars. Seatbelt warnings are a relatively new feature.
- Zak 10mo agoSeat belt warnings became mandatory in the USA in 1972[0]. From the mid 1970s until fairly recently, the warning tone would stop after a few seconds. [0] https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/10832/chapter/5 https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/10832/chapter/5
- vel0city 10mo agoI've had annoying seatbelt warnings on my cars aging back to at least the 90s.
- pepperball 10mo agoAs a reminder of how little things change. I remember watching an old video from sometime when seatbelt laws were mandated in Texas. People were rambling on about how they basically live in the Soviet Union.