Rear seatbelt reminder mandate: just not good enough!

India tin beryllium precise thankful to AIS-145, the regularisation that has been amended clip and again to marque definite our cars person operator airbags, beforehand seatbelt reminders, velocity alerts, beforehand rider airbags and more.

Last year, a draught notification was announced to amend it to necessitate require seatbelt reminders for the rear seats starting April 2025. I don't cognize what the presumption of its implementation successful the CMVR is — possibly BHPians moving successful the vendor manufacture tin corroborate — but the 6th amendment is retired connected ARAI's website.

AMENDMENT NO. 6* (03/2023) TO AIS-145 Additional Safety features for Category M and N Vehicles

What the caller regularisation volition require

• For a fewer seconds after you commencement a trip, the car has to flash the rear seatbelt reminder icon(s) successful the dash/cluster, unless:

• When your car is "on the move"*, it indispensable beep/chime and airy up, if: (2.2.4.1, 2.2.3.3) (*see 2.2.4.1.1-2.2.4.1.3 of the regularisation to spot what counts)

• Unless: (2.2.4.3)

The silly Maruti-type reminders: inactive legal!

You mightiness callback the bizarre behaviour of the rear seatbelt reminders connected the Maruti Fronx and Jimny. If a rear seatbelt is unfastened, they volition beep oregon chime adjacent if the spot is unoccupied. It looks similar it goes beyond Maruti, I spot posts astir the forum showing adjacent Punch.ev and Astor owners are affected, and I cognize that a prof of excavation has an MG Comet with the aforesaid behaviour.

But:
- the regularisation allows cars to commencement beeping simply if a loop is not fastened
- it allows — but doesn't require — the awesome to halt if the spot is occupied (note the highlighted "or")

That means this implementation tin beryllium perfectly legal adjacent erstwhile the regularisation comes into force, truthful if you were hoping the caller regularisation would yet enactment an extremity to the madness, you're retired of luck.

Some cars won't beep erstwhile they should

Many different cars won't adjacent beep if the spot is occupied and the loop is not buckled. This is the benignant of behaviour successful different cars similar Toyotas and Hyundais.

They lone beep if you're already buckled up and unfasten the loop erstwhile you're supra ~15-20 km/h, due to the fact that the regularisation says this:

...which, apparently, seems to mean the shaper has the choice.

And the user tests

You would deliberation that since NCAP tests usually spell "above and beyond" regulations, they would astatine slightest incentivise rear occupant detection, if not level retired necessitate it for a bully score.

Over successful Europe, that is the case. Even though the EU's caller GSR II regulations besides let seatbelt reminders without occupant detection, Euro NCAP does not grant them immoderate points. Here is what they had to accidental astir the caller Duster and Swift:

However, BNCAP does not adjacent measure seatbelt reminders, and Global NCAP, who volition continue to trial cars connected request, is utilizing a 12-year-old Euro NCAP protocol to justice seatbelt reminders, and hence:

link to pdf
Case successful point: the Dzire gets the aforesaid 1 constituent for rear seatbelt reminders arsenic the Nexon which really has occupant detection.

With nary regularisation oregon inducement for the amended reminders, I deliberation it's precise apt we volition beryllium near with galore cars whose seatbelt reminders are — IMHO — either truthful benign they don't work, oregon truthful annoying you person nary enactment but to disable them. I tin find precise fewer mass-market cars that really person rear occupant detection. VWs, Tatas (Nexon and above), newer Mahindras and BYD ATTO 3 to sanction a few, but astir manufacturers usage the cheaper archetypal oregon 2nd kind.