Just looking for opinions or any actual research.
I had someone (a cop who responds to fatal accidents) tell me a baby was in a side-impact collision and his head hit the side of the carseat. It had EPS foam. The baby died from a head injury. So this cops warns people to always put rolled up towels alongside any infant seat (under the actual cover) to cushion the head. He claimed my Chaperone would not need that, though. And it is pretty cushy.
So now I'm hitting the sides of carseats from the inside (looking a bit odd, OK!) to see how hard they are. Hmmm...most are not actually cushy at all.
So beside the head protection question, are carseat makers going to advance EPS foam? I read something about NASCAR material in the future...
And why is the EPS foam always so thin? Would more be better?
I had someone (a cop who responds to fatal accidents) tell me a baby was in a side-impact collision and his head hit the side of the carseat. It had EPS foam. The baby died from a head injury. So this cops warns people to always put rolled up towels alongside any infant seat (under the actual cover) to cushion the head. He claimed my Chaperone would not need that, though. And it is pretty cushy.
So now I'm hitting the sides of carseats from the inside (looking a bit odd, OK!) to see how hard they are. Hmmm...most are not actually cushy at all.
So beside the head protection question, are carseat makers going to advance EPS foam? I read something about NASCAR material in the future...
And why is the EPS foam always so thin? Would more be better?