Calleiah
Active member
Did anyone notice where they tested some seats using both the lower anchors AND seat belt? If you're interested in reading it, here is the link
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/safedrivers-childsafety-programs-testing-harness-report-923.htm
I was most interested where they said
"We thought that the seat belt could possibly act as a safety net, if the UAS were to ever fail. "
and
"However, adding the belt to the UAS did reduce the forward displacement for certain seats. "
and they added that "Overall, installing a child seat with both the UAS and the seat belt did not have a noticeable effect on either the injury measures or how far forward the child seats moved."
So Im curious what all our techs thoughts on that are. We've always said no to use them both together because it was either not tested that way, or tested that way and failed but we had no way to know which.
Anyway, thats it. Just thought it was intriguing that they tested them that way, and the conclusions they came to.
If this needs to be in a more private forum, please feel free to move it. Dont want anyone to think Im endorsing using both methods.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/safedrivers-childsafety-programs-testing-harness-report-923.htm
I was most interested where they said
"We thought that the seat belt could possibly act as a safety net, if the UAS were to ever fail. "
and
"However, adding the belt to the UAS did reduce the forward displacement for certain seats. "
and they added that "Overall, installing a child seat with both the UAS and the seat belt did not have a noticeable effect on either the injury measures or how far forward the child seats moved."
So Im curious what all our techs thoughts on that are. We've always said no to use them both together because it was either not tested that way, or tested that way and failed but we had no way to know which.
Anyway, thats it. Just thought it was intriguing that they tested them that way, and the conclusions they came to.
If this needs to be in a more private forum, please feel free to move it. Dont want anyone to think Im endorsing using both methods.