poprock wrote:As a culture, we used to fit five people in small five seater cars. Dunno what happened over the decades, but we don’t seem to do that any more.
Maybe it’s that everyone’s expectations have changed. More personal space for each passenger, or something. Or maybe legislation around child seats has meant more space is needed to fit them in properly. I’m sure if I had kids of my own I would understand it better.
poprock wrote:Playing the dumbo card, my next question is ‘why are child seats so big?’ There’ll be a perfectly good reason, I’m sure. Smarter people than me will have already asked that question many times, because if they could be smaller then they would be. I know the fact that cars are bigger than they used to be is blamed on safety regulations. Crumple zones, strengthening structures, and so on. Maybe child seats are the same. Maybe there’s a basic underlying truth that bigger equals safer. Or maybe it’s about perception as much as fact - maybe bigger just feels safer and that’s driven the product design over the years.
Paul the sparky wrote:Doesn't sound all that superb to me. Skoda mediocre
GooberTheHat wrote:Unless:GooberTheHat wrote:https://www.multimac.com/range Maybe you could use one of these instead?
Funkstain wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:Unless:GooberTheHat wrote:https://www.multimac.com/range Maybe you could use one of these instead?
Sure but pricey AF
poprock wrote:Playing the dumbo card, my next question is ‘why are child seats so big?’ There’ll be a perfectly good reason, I’m sure. Smarter people than me will have already asked that question many times, because if they could be smaller then they would be.
I know the fact that cars are bigger than they used to be is blamed on safety regulations. Crumple zones, strengthening structures, and so on. Maybe child seats are the same. Maybe there’s a basic underlying truth that bigger equals safer.
Or maybe it’s about perception as much as fact - maybe bigger just feels safer and that’s driven the product design over the years.
Funkstain wrote:Paul the sparky wrote:Doesn't sound all that superb to me. Skoda mediocre
I always assumed it must be ironically named, like the Skoda designers having a bit of a laugh about their erstwhile reputation
Funkstain wrote:Old car "child seat"
You want an S max mateFunkstain wrote:We drive a Skoda superb which is pretty vast. It can’t fit three standard child seats in the bench.
poprock wrote:Okay, so it is about the child seats, then? Got it.
poprock wrote:Porsche’s new ‘customer race car concept’, the Mission R.
We still haven't heard from our challenge to Elon to race against us at the Baja 1000 in 2022 with his Cyber Truck.
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