zormino 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And you can bypass a seatbelt warning by just plugging in a buckle without the belt, but most people don't bother. It's not worth the inconvenience to circumvent, so it still has a positive impact on safety.

noosphr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Go in a car from 1970 and try the seatbelts.

I can see why people didn't want them.

I too would rather not have a stiff blade like plastic meterial nearly cut my head off everytime the car breaks.

By comparison today we have luxurious silk strands that don't pinch anywhere.

	▲	simoncion an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I too would rather not have a stiff blade like plastic meterial nearly cut my head off everytime the car breaks. I have to wonder how much of this is due to ~fifty years of aging of the belt material. It's not as if the very first time we'd ever designed and installed an operator-safety belt was in the 1970s... so it'd be very surprising if the designers chose to make them stiff blades. Your description is also at odds with how I've seen people handle and use seatbelts in motion pictures from the era... from what I've seen, those belts look to me to be reasonably flexible.

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vitally3643 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A shocking fraction of people will simply ignore the seatbelt beeping for the entire drive

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trinix912 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seatbelts are actually heavily enforced around the EU, most people would rather just belt up than pay the fine.

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baw-bag 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Toyota... When we look after a dog for a few days for a friend, it beeps. When I put shopping on the back seat, it beeps. Drives me wild. It "beep... beep... beep..." for a minute then "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP".

I wouldn't get another because of how annoying that is.

	▲	aenis 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I once made the mistake of renting one of those cars, putting my backpack and some groceries behind me, and driving straight onto a freeway. This absolute sh*tbox was beeping so loud I was afraid for my hearing. I drove some 10 miles like this before I could pull over and move the things. I'd not set foot in one of those cars ever again (same goes for Lexus). I was dreaming of really bad things happening to people who thought it was a good idea to emit series of very loud beeps while the car is driving.

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fsuts 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the event of a serious accident police will likely check to see if it was tampered with and so sentence will be more severe

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golem14 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Uh, oh! That's great. Need to get an Arnold Rimmer or Captain Kirk one.

Of course, one wonders what the car does if the camera is blocked with a post-it. Will it just not work, or fall back on something else, like pressure at the steering wheel, like Tesla does ?