Drop speed limits back down to 50mph and you've got a deal
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forgive me, but i have to ask. how does speed affect the type of seat that is used?
Not a car expert, but i presume that actual seats provide more stability when turning/ more safety when having an accident. Both of which gets worse when speed increases.
that was my first thought too, but i dont recall ever taking corners that sharp at 60 or 50 mph.
edit - oop i missed the part you said better safety for crashes, that sounds reasonable, and im curious about how its more safe.
had an 83 f100. the first time I took a turn too fast I got thrown into the passenger seat.
I'm lucky it was a back road and I had legs long enough to still press the brake enough to slow down enough to get back into the driver seat and carry on.
wasn't long after that and I got a newer truck with bucket seats.
sure, benches were fun and easy to ~~fuck~~sleep on but the safety trade off made it an easy choice to make.
Car accidents. All collision types become more likely as speed increases, and injuries increase with that - not chance of injury, total injuries. Bench seats were abandoned for bucket seats because bench seats are objectively more deadly when analyzing car crashes.
You need to limit the speed a vehicle can go if you're going to make unsafe designs acceptable again, otherwise you're just gambling with lives for fun cabin interiors.
Can't adjust the seat properly. Passengers slide more easily when cornering. More material required for upholstery and padding.
As someone who has had both, bucket seats are way better than bench seats.
The bucket seats have all that material and padding down each side so I don't think that point stands.
Bench seats have material and padding all across the middle of the whole car...
The cost on 2 bucket seats is way higher than a single bench. Separate controls, hinges, reclining mechanisms, headrests,
For comfort, there is no question, bucket seats reign supreme.
TBF, being of an age that i've had both, I'll take a bucket seat and good AC over a bench seat. If my girl needs to be that close to me, we're going to be in the back seat :)
the back seat of a truck? how big are trucks these days holy
But that's divided between three seats, not two, so the material per seat is less.
And dogs at least can do okay with bucket seats. I drove an Oldsmobile Silhouette ^(the Cadillac of minivans!)^ for years, and my dog was just tall enough that he could sit between the driver and passenger seats and look out the front windshield. He was at the perfect height for head scritches while I drove down the highway.
I remember when he got a bit too hefty to sit there comfortably. The automatic seat adjustment controls were on the right side of the driver seat and one time I suddenly found myself being pushed into the steering wheel at a stop light. His jelly rolls had started pressing in on the little joystick.
I miss that dog. The van was just okay.
I miss my Buick. Thing was like a couch in the front.
That is the only positive thing I can recall about our old Buick. The front couch was super comfy. Column shifter was pretty sweet too
"Ah don't wear a seatbelt because muh sisters cousins friends uncles neighbors mechanics grandaddys brother died while he was wearing a seatbelt and couldn't get out of the vehicle in time to avoid the freight train that he was too blind and deaf to see or hear coming."
Why was a blind/def person driving to begin with?
"He wudn't, his preacher's side-piece's son's 2nd step-daddy was drivin' shit-faced n flee through the windshield so he coon't help"
Fwiw, there's seatbelts in that image. If you wanted to sit closer, you could cross the right belt over and buckle it into the left buckle, and buckle the left belt into the right one. You could use the same method to secure a 3rd person in the middle. As long as nobody's too fat.
Stickshifts and safetybelts, bucketseats have all got to go, when we're driving in my car, they make my baby feel so far
I NEED. YOU HERE WITH ME. NOT WAY OVER IN A BUCKET SEAT.
I love CAKE, definitely my favorite band. Did you know they give out tree saplings at their concerts?
Cake is awesome. I heard about the tree saplings.
...and now I have that song stuck in my head.
What song is it?
Stickshifts and Safety Belts by Cake.
That's certainly a song of all time
Exactly how the people in the music video fot Short Skirt Long Jacket reacted
Yeah because that engineers cute girl and dog probably died in a T bone accident.
It's all good until safety is a consideration
This exactly.
Bench seats are great for hanging out with afore mentioned dog and/or girl.
Bench seats are super shitty in any sort of side impact collision. There's nothing keeping you in place except your safety belt.
What additional factors does a bucket seat have to keep you in place during a side impact that a bench seat doesn't? I don't imagine the extra shoulder rest material really doing that much work.
Sliding around is one part, the other is the lack of functional headrests in old trucks.
Idk GMC smoking crack putting those fakers in my 1994 K1500, they're below my neck and not adjustable. Regulatory compromise, no care.
We rented a van last year and only the front seats were bucket seats, the backseat of our car is a bench seat too. In both cases they’re not smooth across the back anymore like the one in the picture, all modern bench seats have divots too.
Then why is the middle seat the safest car seat?
People rarely sit there without someone on either side acting as a buffer
If you mean the middle rear, probably because there's nothing in front of you. It may be the safest overall, not necessarily the safest in a side impact.
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Not a fan of bench seats, but I can't argue here - this is pretty solid logic. And a solid bassline in that Cake song about them too.
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