turtlemama
New member
Hi, Im new here, so I don't know where to put this, but I had a couple of ideas about car seats and no one I know cares, so I thought I would run them by you guys. My main questions would be, is this even possible and would it be safe? Is it just dumb? You can be completely honest. Also tell me if you've heard of anything like it, maybe I just havent ever seen it.
The first thing is, I was thinking about the FF integrated seats in some vehicles and how safe they would be. My MIL has integrated seats in her oldish Grand Caravan and they have no side impact protection at all. I was wondering if there are any that do have that, and if they dont, why not?
Also that made me wonder if there were RF integrated seats, if not, why?
My idea for that was a seat, say in a van, could turn into a RF integrated seat with side impact protection. I dont really know how it would work, but in my head I see some kind of lever and the seat either flips around and the side impact protectors pop up, or the seat somehow folds out into a RFing seat, and you push the button and it all goes back in and you have a regular seat with an adult seatbelt.
Then for recline, say if you have a newborn, there is a lever at the bottom of the seat that reclines it to the right level. It also would harness to at least 65lbs and RF to at least 45.
I just see this as a way to avoid all the installation problems, it would just be a push of a button or pull of a lever and adjusting the harness.
If only it could be that easy.
Another idea I had, and this one I think is probably not so great, but Ill say it anyway.
What if instead of having to latch a seat in, there was a base of some sort that could hold up to 3 seats. So you would put the base in (this would probably only work on bench seats) secure it (I havent figured out how that part would work yet) and then you have something to hook seats onto. Maybe a special line of seats that all fit on this base or something, and Im not just talking about infant seats, I mean convertibles as well.
Ok so there are my ideas. I figure I'm probably just crazy or something and this is all probably totally unsafe, or maybe more difficult than just getting a seat and putting it in the regular way. So what do you think? Good, bad?
Again, sorry if this isnt the right place.
The first thing is, I was thinking about the FF integrated seats in some vehicles and how safe they would be. My MIL has integrated seats in her oldish Grand Caravan and they have no side impact protection at all. I was wondering if there are any that do have that, and if they dont, why not?
Also that made me wonder if there were RF integrated seats, if not, why?
My idea for that was a seat, say in a van, could turn into a RF integrated seat with side impact protection. I dont really know how it would work, but in my head I see some kind of lever and the seat either flips around and the side impact protectors pop up, or the seat somehow folds out into a RFing seat, and you push the button and it all goes back in and you have a regular seat with an adult seatbelt.
Then for recline, say if you have a newborn, there is a lever at the bottom of the seat that reclines it to the right level. It also would harness to at least 65lbs and RF to at least 45.
I just see this as a way to avoid all the installation problems, it would just be a push of a button or pull of a lever and adjusting the harness.
If only it could be that easy.
Another idea I had, and this one I think is probably not so great, but Ill say it anyway.
What if instead of having to latch a seat in, there was a base of some sort that could hold up to 3 seats. So you would put the base in (this would probably only work on bench seats) secure it (I havent figured out how that part would work yet) and then you have something to hook seats onto. Maybe a special line of seats that all fit on this base or something, and Im not just talking about infant seats, I mean convertibles as well.
Ok so there are my ideas. I figure I'm probably just crazy or something and this is all probably totally unsafe, or maybe more difficult than just getting a seat and putting it in the regular way. So what do you think? Good, bad?
Again, sorry if this isnt the right place.