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A child safety seat, sometimes called an infant safety seat, child restraint system, child seat, baby seat, car seat, or a booster seat, is a seat designed specifically to protect children from injury or death during vehicle collisions. Most commonly these seats are purchased and installed by car owners, but car manufacturers may integrate them ...
Rear seat of a Porsche 911, typical of "auxiliary" seating in many of the smaller or most sporty 2+2s Rear seats of a 1982 Jaguar XJS HE coupé, spacious for a 2+2. A 2+2 (also 2-plus-2) is a car-body style that has a seat each for the driver and front passenger, and two rear seats. The latter may be individual "bucket" seats, fold-downs, or a ...
The brace procedure for the forward-facing seat in the United States is similar to that of the UK, but rather than placing the hands on the back of the head, passengers are advised to place them on the top of the seat in front, one hand holding the other wrist and resting the head in the space between the arms.
[2] [3] Departure angle is its counterpart at the rear of the vehicle – the maximum ramp angle from which the car can descend without damage. Approach and departure angles are also referred to as ramp angles .
Regulatory definition: For the purpose of U.S. regulation and GTRs (Global Technical Regulations)—and for clear communication in safety and seating design [7] —the H-point is defined as the actual hip point of the seated crash test dummy itself, [7] whereas the R-point (or SgRP, seating reference point) is the theoretical hip point used by ...
A rumble seat (American English), dicky (dickie/dickey) seat (British English), also called a mother-in-law seat, [1] is an upholstered exterior seat which is folded into the rear of a coach, carriage, or early motorcar. Depending on its configuration, it provided exposed seating for one or two passengers.
Ackermann geometry. The Ackermann steering geometry (also called Ackermann's steering trapezium) [1] is a geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels on the inside and outside of a turn needing to trace out circles of different radii.
An enhanced system, called Ultrasonic Rear Occupant Alert, also uses ultrasonic sensors. [2] If the vehicle is locked and the ultrasonic sensors on the headlining detect movement in the rear seats, the system will flash the hazards lights and sound the horn for 25 seconds, and again if the system continue to detect movement, for up to eight ...