Seems weird...
Wh are these people?
Their website says they are headquartered in Monterey, CA. It also says the company name is First Seat LLC, but I did a search with the california secretary of state (to try to get an address) and they are not registered with agency.
I could be way off on this, but for a product as important as a child safety seat...would you buy it if it is manufactured by an LLC? (Limited Liability Company).
LLC is a corporate designation, you could still sue the
cr@p out of them if you had to...
I guess everyone has to start somewhere, I don't think we have any reason not to trust them if they make a good product... no point putting any faith in the seatmakers on the market that keep cranking out overhead shield seats, seats without EPS foam, seats without built in lockoffs, infant seats with handles that release and get recalled time after time after time...etc... It's hard to get funding for a new company, anyway, and you need millions to get a car seat designed and tested and to market.. could take years (They are probably hoping their design gets bought out for big bucks by an already-operating company...that's how it works in software, anyway... you design something and pray that Microsoft buys you out, lol).
And yeah, I'd still like to see more comparisons...but since tethering isn't legally required, that's really the best we can expect from a seat with a lapbelt unless there's some kind of lapbelt lockoff for FF, or some cool base design... I kind of think Britaxes wouldn't fly that far sideways, their bases are way more grippy to the seat than that rounded Triumph base...