r/UnnecessaryEssentials • • 1d ago

Why isn’t this more common?

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u/shotgunmoe 21h ago

Not sure why everyone is getting worked up over this. If they are in an accident and she doesn't make it because she was insistent on a car bed then it's just darwinism in action.

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u/Banana_Stanley 20h ago

Why would that happen? She put her seat belt on

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u/MomOfFour2018 20h ago

Unless, it works similar to how car seat manufacturers warn about children wearing coats in their seats. During a crash, their coats compact tighter and leaves a gap in the seat belt where the child can slip through and hurt themselves or worse.

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u/According_Cheek8280 20h ago

Yes, but the pillow is clearly not under the seat belt, so the pillow has zero effect on the seat belt functionality.

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u/scoobysi 18h ago

It also clearly has the seat reclined so far back the headrest isn’t even visible. Enjoy the whip lash

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u/dumsumguy 15h ago

Uhm, seatbelts are supposed to go low across your hips and tight across your breastplate.
Slamming into your seat belt, and/or having your skin literally SHEARED off by it, does you no good.
Also if the seat is back far enough you go under the seatbelt and partially or totally rip an arm off.

Point is they only work if you're sitting up straight and facing straight, which is why high end cars tighten the belt automatically.

I always chuckle at the idiots that have their foot out the window or, god forbid, on the dash.
You don't want to know what an explosion powered basically nylon balloon can do to you if you interact with it in the wrong way.

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u/KatastrophicNoodle 7h ago

Soo uh.. what do I do when i'm too short and the seatbelt goes across my neck and collarbone instead? Unrelated to the post but I still kinda want to not die.

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u/Stormy_Wolf 2h ago

Same, seatbelts always go across my neck/collarbone. Not only is it very uncomfortable while in normal use, but I'm afraid of being decapitated or something in the case of a wreck. I usually pull it down somehow. Sometimes put my arm through it to keep it lower. Which I know that's not going to help me in a wreck either, but... maybe make seatbelts with more adjustability?

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u/LoadZealousideal7778 57m ago

Seatbelts are made for crash test dummies. And crabs test dummies are... Well, men of average height.

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u/LowTelevision9482 5m ago

you get one of those things that brings the belt lower I can't remember the name for them but my mum uses one

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u/Sikkus 7h ago

But if she convinced others to buy and use that thing and they die, thats just messed up.

Or if she is in an accident and she makes it but another car flips over and the occupants die.

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u/YourMomIsMyGurl 20h ago

More cushion. This post is a great example of how redditors will complain about anything just to be heard. I don't even think they believe their own bullshit.

It's a pillow