New Car Seat

[Dr. Internet]

This one is for Zorba, but many of you will appreciate it.

Moved to Georgia and now we need a car seat so we can take grand-daughter to park.

Went online and ordered one. Opened it up and found the installation manual. Three pages on how to install it; 17 pages of modes, weights, heights, forward vs rear facing, laws. threats and disclaimers. But that's not why I am writing this.

I took the seat out of the box and another manual fell on the ground; a fifteen page book describing how to connect your car seat to your smart phone! AARRRGGGH!
It will warn you if it's too hot, or if junior hasn't moved recently, or if you get 20' away and the car seat is still occupied. I could not believe it.

I know I'm not alone in this group of people who were raised without seat belts, sliding around in the back of a station wagon, breathing second hand smoke. And now I'm supposed to rely on my phone to watch my grand-daughter? Not likely...

 

[lBasket]

It will warn you if it's too hot, or if junior hasn't moved recently, or if you get 20' away and the car seat is still occupied. I could not believe it.

Sheeeesh. If you need this, you have no business taking care of a small child. Insane

 

[Apparition]

I hope it rotates. The rotating ones are game changers for access especially if rear facing.

Never heard a one with electronics though.

 

[JEEPCJTJ]

The "rely on your phone" part is just icing on the cake.

The cake being china trying to keep an eye on Americans from the time they leave the hospital.

 

[DeltaNu1142]

I know I'm not alone in this group of people who were raised without seat belts, sliding around in the back of a station wagon, breathing second hand smoke.

I explicitly remember my parents getting pulled over in my mom's 1979 Caprice after my younger sister had been surreptitiously pulling tissues out of a box and tossing them one-by-one out the back window. After the statie got done telling my father what she'd been up to, he pointed at me--lying prone in the rear window shelf behind the backseat headrests--and said, "...and that is very dangerous." I didn't have the first idea what he was talking about. What did I do?

 

[lBasket]

I know I'm not alone in this group of people who were raised without seat belts, sliding around in the back of a station wagon, breathing second hand smoke. And now I'm supposed to rely on my phone to watch my grand-daughter? Not likely...

All the kids in my generation in my family remember getting yelled at by Grandpa for asking him to open a window in the Caddy while he smoked

I'm not even that old lol

 

[ColoJeep]

I know I'm not alone in this group of people who were raised without seat belts, sliding around in the back of a station wagon,

Totally right , the only people that wore seat belts in the 60's were Astronauts. .....

 

[Andymc79]

Sheeeesh. If you need this, you have no business taking care of a small child. Insane

When my wife was pregnant (more than 7 years ago now) she saw a post that recommended putting one of your shoes in the back seat when you strapped the kiddo in so you wouldn't forget them when you arrived at your destination. Seriously?!

For the first 2 years or so after he was born that was always the joke we sent to each other as a reminder not to "forget" him!

 

[DeltaNu1142]

When my wife was pregnant (more than 7 years ago now) she saw a post that recommended putting one of your shoes in the back seat when you strapped the kiddo in so you wouldn't forget them when you arrived at your destination. Seriously?!

That's a real thing. When I was living in FL, I saw so many women walking around grocery stores pushing around an empty stroller with one shoe on.

 

[Apparition]

When my wife was pregnant (more than 7 years ago now) she saw a post that recommended putting one of your shoes in the back seat when you strapped the kiddo in so you wouldn't forget them when you arrived at your destination. Seriously?!

For the first 2 years or so after he was born that was always the joke we sent to each other as a reminder not to "forget" him!

Now cars have a built in reminder to check the back seat.

 

[Reign Mack]

When my wife was pregnant (more than 7 years ago now) she saw a post that recommended putting one of your shoes in the back seat when you strapped the kiddo in so you wouldn't forget them when you arrived at your destination. Seriously?!

thats rule #31 of zombieland

 

[Stinkbug]

Totally right , the only people that wore seat belts in the 60's were Astronauts. .....

My grandfather was a body and fender man at Bob Spreen Cadillac. He saw so many vehicles come into the shop after people were ejected through the front windshield leaving hair, skin, flesh, and what ever else on the glass as they passed through or got mashed up against it that he began installing seatbelts in every car in the family in the early 60s and you were required to wear them.

He was a smart man.

 

[cjmckenna]

Now cars have a built in reminder to check the back seat.

The WL flashes something up on the dash to check the backseat when you hit the Stop button (another "feature" I really don't like). I wish I could turn it off. My youngest is in college. LOL

 

[Apparition]

The WL flashes something up on the dash to check the backseat when you hit the Stop button (another "feature" I really don't like). I wish I could turn it off. My youngest is in college. LOL

On our newer cars we were able to turn off the backseat reminders.

 

[bucky]

I worked in the ER for 10yrs seatbelts, proper child car seats and good helmets save lives.
When airbags started to be a thing we started getting patients with horrific lower body injuries. Studies determined that they were victims who would have been dead without the airbags and would not make it to the ER.