07-06-2014, 03:48 PM
(07-05-2014, 08:50 AM)Carsman Wrote: Maybe, the law to only have the child in the rear seat of a vehicle for it's own safety, needs to be revisited.
(Hard to forget a child sitting next to you.)
I thought the same thing and researched it a little last week, Cars.
From what I gather, there are still a lot fewer deaths (or potential deaths) from forgetting kids in the hot car than from passenger side airbags going off and crushing a child to death. There aren't really reliable stats on the airbag deaths, though.
I did read a while back that vehicle manufacturers are working on future airbags that can detect the size of the passenger and inflate proportionally, but I don't know how close those smart airbags are to reality and/or market.