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NHTSA Decides to Make Seatbelt Reminders More Aggressive, All Encompassing
- All passenger vehicles manufactured for sale in the U.S. after September 1st, 2026 will be required to have updated seatbelt warning systems for frontal occupants.
- Enhanced warnings will become mandatory for all rear seats a year after that date.
- The NHTSA said this was part of its initiative to help automate safety and foreshadowed updates to its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP).
- Mandatory enhanced safety belt systems would save 50 lives and prevent roughly 500 injuries per year, the NHTSA estimates.
- With the above in mind, the NHTSA estimates that mandating enhanced safety belt systems would save 50 lives and prevent roughly 500 injuries per year.
- Many states don’t have laws requiring occupants seated in the rear of the vehicle to wear a seatbelt, this means occupants can set off the enhanced seatbelt warning systems nonstop.
- Present-day vehicles are already so overloaded with warning chimes and warning messages that most people have simply started tuning them out.
- Rear-seat reminders can undoubtedly be helpful, but the systems will raise the MSRP of every automobile on the market.
- Friends have also come to me complaining to disable the feature entirely.
- Encouraging people to wear seatbelts can definitely improve the situation but regulators need to focus on issues that actually pose a risk to public safety.
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