In a withering expose published this week, the Chicago Tribune
unearthed safety tests whose results raise questions about the
dangers posed by several popular car seat models. The findings, which resulted from tests
conducted by the National HIghway Traffic Safety Administration to determine the
comparative safety ratings of cars, not the car seats inside them, were
never released to the public, however, and in some cases
were unknown even to the companies that make the car seats. Yet as the
Tribune points out, such information would be of great interest to
parents, who have to make choices about which car seat to buy based on
nothing but the marketing mantras produced and promoted by the
companies that make them.
After the jump: what happened when car seats were tested in actual cars.
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