joolsplus3
Admin - CPS Technician
They just CAN'T be misused based on weight. (well, they can, anything is possible, but it'd be by a very tiny minority, compared to the huge numbers of 45-50 pound kids shoved into 40 pound seats because parents think harnessing is safer at any cost).
It's like having a nice over-engineered seatbelt in your car. No, most of us DON'T need seatbelts that can restrain a 300+ pound person, but do you want to have to fret and worry and weigh yourself and your riders if they start making seatbelts that only hold an average sized person and nothing more? No. You don't want to have to worry about it working, it just works. Same with seats with 'unrealistcally' high weight limits. If we're ever thinking "I just wish they'd make a seat that fits at least some kids to 65 or 80 pounds" then it's entirely possible we simply don't know enough kids. There are plenty of them, and we can't judge weight limits on seats based on our own small sampling of kids we know, IMO.
Anyway, that's just my deep thought of the day
It's like having a nice over-engineered seatbelt in your car. No, most of us DON'T need seatbelts that can restrain a 300+ pound person, but do you want to have to fret and worry and weigh yourself and your riders if they start making seatbelts that only hold an average sized person and nothing more? No. You don't want to have to worry about it working, it just works. Same with seats with 'unrealistcally' high weight limits. If we're ever thinking "I just wish they'd make a seat that fits at least some kids to 65 or 80 pounds" then it's entirely possible we simply don't know enough kids. There are plenty of them, and we can't judge weight limits on seats based on our own small sampling of kids we know, IMO.
Anyway, that's just my deep thought of the day