As part of its push to bring self-driving vehicles to the market, Ford is in the process of developing a communication interface that will effectively allow driverless autonomous vehicles to indicate intention to other motorists. To further the development of this language, Ford has brought back one of its quirkier methods of testing: the Human […]
It’s cold outside, and you’re bundling your children up with puffy, warm coats. But a winter coat can actually endangers your child when he or she is buckled into a car seat. Know How: To properly winterize your car Jason Waugh, the valet supervisor at West Virginia’s Cabell Huntington Hospital, has a Child Passenger Safety […]
A car seat takes up a lot of space in a vehicle. Multiply by three and you need a car with a ton of room, but most cars don’t have the space or the safety features to comfortably fit three car seats in one row. If you’re in need of a car to accommodate three […]
The need for three car seats usually means a vehicle upgrade. But with two Chrysler models, the 2018 Chrysler Pacifica and Chrysler 300, you already have the space and safety systems you need to accommodate three car seats. That’s why U.S. News & World Report named both Chrysler models to its round-up of 21 Great […]
New child passenger safety seat guidance advises kids to ride rear-facing as long as possible; drops age criterion. @DrBenHoffman explains: https://t.co/F7l4eLCT1Z pic.twitter.com/AWsqlfk9k7 — AAP News (@AAPNews) August 30, 2018 Until now, many parents typically wait until their little one turns 2 years old before switching them to a front-facing car seat. As of today, parents […]
When you purchase a car, you hope that it will serve you for a long time before you can resell it or buy another. This means you have to put in some work to ensure the quality of the parts of your vehicle remains top-notch throughout its life. Here, we look at how you can […]
This year’s Ford Green IT e-Waste Recycling Day was unique in that, for the first time ever, used car seats were on the list of items accepted for recycling. In all, Ford says that its employees contributed some 100,000 pounds of child safety seats, televisions, monitors, computers, and printers. ”It’s a rare thing to be […]
Parents are still failing at installing car seats. In fact, according to a survey by SafeKids.org, “64 percent of caregivers who showed up at a Safe Kids Buckle Up checkup event with a child in a forward-facing car seat were not using a tether.” What’s the tether you ask? Well, “it’s the strap with a […]
General Motors China and Safe Kids Worldwide earlier this month teamed up to host a Safe Kids Safe Ride Car Seat Installation Workshop at Yilong Baohong Chevrolet in Shanghai. The imperative for the workshop stems in part from the 2014 Research Report on Road Traffic Injuries of Children in China, which found that no fewer […]
Even if it looks like your kid’s car seat or booster is unchanged on the outside after a fender bender or crash, there’s a strong chance that on the inside, it will never be the same. “Crash forces are extreme; they’re strong enough to bend the steel frame of the car, and can easily damage […]
Two Volkswagen SUVs make car seat installation less stressful with easy-access and quality Latch anchors and deliver families with enough space for at least two kid-specific seats that the editors at Cars.com have taken notice. Because the editors are so impressed with the family-friendly safety features regarding cars seats in both the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas […]
Car seats are designed specifically to keep little ones safe while riding in a car, but if parents break important car seat rules, they can be putting their kids’ safety at risk. The first safety rule for car seats hinges on the purchase. According to Reader’s Digest editors, parents should always purchase a new car […]
Why is it that small children need such big stuff, especially when traveling? It’s not just the collection of clothes, diapers, toys, bottles, and snacks that’s burdensome when traveling by plane and automobile–it’s all of that plus the car seat. Yes, the wonderful life-protecting, yet super-bulky apparatus that responsible parents would never even consider traveling […]
While I’ve not carried a child in my womb, many of my close friends and coworkers have; the majority of them have confessed that they gave little thought to how driving a car changes when pregnant. That unintentional disregard is apparently common across the entire nation. Because standard vehicle seatbelts are not designed for […]
Unless you own a hairless dog or a car fit with leather seating, chances are you’ve had the same problem countless other pet owners have faced: how to remove that pesky fur from the seats and carpets of your vehicle. You’ve run the vacuum nozzle over the seats a hundred times but that hair seems permanently […]
Expecting leather or Alcantara in that new luxury car? Lexus says that in the future, you might be looking at this: a “Kinetic Seat” built out of a synthetic spider silk material called QMONOS. Humans have been researching spider silk for many years, as it has been found to be four times stronger than steel […]
BMW vehicles are known for their sportiness and luxury, two things that young children usually are not concerned with. Many car seats that help carry them are rather drab affairs that no one wants to show off. They perform the job they were designed for, and that’s it. BMW is trying to change all that with […]
When you are involved in a car accident, it isn’t always the other car hitting you that causes injury—the force transferred through the car by the collision can often cause injuries, whether or not you were in danger of being physically impacted by the other vehicle. One of these injuries in particular is called whiplash. […]
