Gurt vs. Kindersitz: Was ist sicherer?
So if car seats and booster seats aren't the safety miracle that parents have been taught to believe, what should they do? The most important thing, certainly, is to make sure that children always ride with some kind of restraint -- and, depending on your state, a car seat or booster seat may be the only legal option. On a broader level, though, it might be worth asking this question: Considering that Americans spend a few hundred million dollars annually on complicated contraptions that may not add much lifesaving value, how much better off might we be if that money was spent to make existing seat belts fit children? Some automakers do in fact make integrated child seats (in which, for example, the car's seat back flips down for the child to sit on); other solutions might include lap-and-shoulder belts that vertically adjust to fit children, or even a built-in five-point harness.
It may be that the ultimate benefit of car seats and booster seats is that they force children to sit still in the back seat. If so, perhaps there is a different contraption that could help accomplish the same goal for roughly the same price: a back-seat DVD player.
Wer wissenmöchte, ob ein Swimming-Pool gefährlicher ist als ein geladenes Gewehr, warum amerikanische Lehrer und japanische Sumo-Ringer sich in ihrer Neigung zum Betrügen ähneln und warum Drogendealer oft noch bei ihrer Mutter wohnen, dem sei die Lektüre des Bestsellers der beiden Autoren Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (die zugehörige Webseite) ans Herz gelegt.
Via Marginal Revolution.
