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The safety features are worth millions of crashes prevented and thousands of lives saved, making them remarkably cost-effective.

Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Are the backseat alarms smart enough to only alert when there's something back there yet? Otherwise it seems like it's just an annoyance or something that people will start to mentally filter out.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    They seem to use weight to determine if a person is in a seat so they will mistake anything considered a significant enough weight as a person. Doesn't keep you from turning the car off or anything just dings and puts an alert up on the screen.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Ugh, I hope it's better than the last car I drove, couldn't set groceries on the seat or it'd trigger the seatbelt alarm.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Seatbelt alarm seems to need more weight than the backseat check alarm.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    That sounds absolutely ridiculous. What's the point of needing less weight to set off backseat alarms? A gallon of water is only like 4kg and that's enough to set off seatbelt alarms.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    In my car I haven't figured out what sets it off, it happens all the the with nothing in the backseat.

    I appreciate the intent, but at least in my car the false positive rate is so high I could imagine ignoring it

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