I routinely had 8+h drives in the rear-facing seat of my family's circa 1970 Plymouth Satellite station wagon growing up. Completely unsafe, and very boring, but I don't recall barfing.

My sister and I would pass the time folding up a piece of paper and each of us got to draw part of a person without seeing what the other had drawn. Sort of like visual madlibs.

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arijun 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Congratulations, you don't have motion sickness. I think that post was referring to those who do.

For those people, rear-facing seats can exacerbate motion sickness. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...

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worik 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> rear-facing seat of my family's circa 1970 Plymouth Satellite station wagon growing up. Completely unsafe,

I am curious: Unsafe because a " 1970 Plymouth Satellite" or because "rear-facing seat"?

	▲	shermantanktop 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Both, plus absence of seat belts. Rear facing with no head support is a good way to snap your neck if you are wearing a belt, but because we weren’t, we’d probably be flying forward to the windshield. https://www.automobile-catalog.com/img/pictonorzw/plymouth/1... Looking at that picture, I see belts, but I do not recall those belts and suspect they were deeply wedged into the seat and forgotten about.