Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
by brianwawok on Saturday September 26, 2020 @07:50PM
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Very short window? What is your car seat age range there? Current trend in the US is car seats till age 8 give or take. 3 kids within 8 years is very expected if you are having 3 or more.
Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
by pwinnski on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:00PM
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Booster seats are often required for kids up to age 8 or so, often only if they are shorter than 4' 9". But booster seats easily fit in small cars.
The age limit recommendation are a rear-facing seat until 2, then a front-facing seat until they reach something like 65 pounds, then a booster seat.
From experience, three car seats cannot fit side-by-side in really any car, whether front-facing or rear-facing. But booster seats are fine, even in my tiny Fiat 500e. Back in the day, I leased a minivan for a while and then the kids started to outgrow bulky carseats.
Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
by boomboomsubban on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:49PM
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The range in which all three are in car seats is still very small. Even with one child a year, the quickest "regular" speed, you would have a five year period with three child seats of the fifteen years that all three would be underage.
But... my own youngest and oldest are almost exactly three years apart, so I can tell you that even a Toyota Camry was incapable of handling three American-standard carseats side-by-side.
However, in countries with lower speed limits, less bulky carseats are required to keep kids safe even in the unusual case of three closely-spaced kids.