I just turned 7, no more booster seat!

[TheOriginalJames]

Oh wait... nevermind if you're in Washington State...

HeraldNet: Kids could be stuck in booster seats until 16

 

[AUDRAA]

yeah right like youre gonna get any kid over the age of 12 (and thats being generous with the age) in a booster seat good luck with that

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Well lets think about that.

Cop is having a bad day. decides to be a dick and pulls you over. Notices your kid doesn't look that tall and writes you out a ticket for not only speeding, but the 112 dollar fine ticket for no booster seat.

It's a bullshit law, IMO... but it'll happen.

 

[Eridanus]

WTH? That's crazy. Most 16 year olds are taller and bigger than I am at the age of 24, and I legally drive a car.

Next; drivers in booster seats.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

What I don't like is that the state is going around the US laws and not just appealing to the US courts and lawmakers to get the automakers to redesign seat belts to fit both adults and children in the first place. This would eliminate the need for consumers to spend 25k on a minivan and then 20-120 on the lower end booster seats.

I mean since seatbelts are MANDATORY here now, why not get the auto manufacturers to redesign them to be adjustable?

 

[Eridanus]

I mean since seatbelts are MANDATORY here now, why not get the auto manufacturers to redesign them to be adjustable?

Mandatory now? How long have they been mandatory there? I think we are coming up on about 30 years of mandatory seatbelts.

You don't have adjustable seatbelts? Or child seatbelt harnesses for cars?

 

[TheOriginalJames]

It just depends on the car. My truck has adjustable shoulder belts, but my escort had automatic seat belts so they weren't adjustable at all.

It's been mandatory for a while now... at least since I started driving 8 years ago. They do a major countrywide "click it or ticket" campaign once a year. Brings in millions of dollars in ticket revenue to police agencies.

 

[Eridanus]

Ah, okey dokey.

 

[elluko]

Waaaah! I do wanna sit in abooster seat!

 

[AUDRAA]

Luke you do?

 

[ngdawg]

My daughter was in a booster until she was 6 or 7 because she was too short for the seatbelt. By weight, she'd have been in one a couple years longer. Her twin brother, on the other hand, was out of it by 4. 4'9" is ridiculous-that's a 4th or 5th grader!

 

[NicAuf]

That would totally suck ass.

 

[raubin]

That's funny as! Small kids are going to get ripped into at school, but it is good that they have to stay in the back, hard luck to parents with a 2 seater though.

 

[ouachiski]

Hell, I got my license at 15, and the law hear is now so you can get your license at 16. They gonna make people go straight from the booster seat to the drivers seat?