The fallacy of safety with the rear seat belt alarm

Join Date: Nov 2020

Location: Goa

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The draught notification by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways mandates each cars should person rear spot loop alarms. I, similar galore different BHPians, was blessed to perceive the quality of having much information requirements which could prevention lives portion not expanding the conveyance outgo significantly. But, alas, I person been successful for a rude astonishment with the implementation!

The car manufacturers successful their infinite contented has implemented the alteration successful the cheapest mode possible. They person rear spot loop warning, implicit with the large chime that goes connected for up to a minute, but without the value sensor. It is not imaginable to propulsion successful the seatbelt each clip you exit the rear seat. Also, it is not imaginable to retrieve oregon punctual you passengers to bash it each time. So invariably, if the rear seats are used, the spot belts enactment unhooked and the adjacent clip you commencement driving you perceive the dreaded beep. And dissimilar the rider side, you can't thin implicit to buckle them up. You person to virtually halt the car, spell retired and buckle them backmost in.

Initially I saw immoderate cars travel with this diagnostic and assumed it was a stopgap measurement until they enactment successful the value sensors. But having brought 2 caller vehicles which were some marque caller releases, the Maruti Jimny and the Tata Punch EV, I americium disappointed that this is present the defacto option.

I person mislaid number of however galore times I person cursed and waited for the chime to halt erstwhile idiosyncratic forgot to buckle the rear seat. Invariably I hide it the adjacent clip I get successful the car and endure it again until I springiness up, stop, curse immoderate much and hook each of them up.

How galore of you guys person experienced this? I asked astatine the dealerships and they accidental that this 'feature' is 1 that they get the astir complaints from repetition car buyers. The Maruti idiosyncratic adjacent suggested that I unhook the sensors to halt the sound. I brought this up successful a car meetup treatment and galore radical went livid, which means I americium not the lone 1 having this gripe.

I wholly recognize the value of information and that a small inconvenience is not a crushed for reneging connected it. But, erstwhile u get into the car, possibly person the quality connected the radio, thrust into the engaged greeting postulation and it starts chiming distant for the rear buckles that you cannot scope unless you are a gymnist, you person each crushed to find mode to disable the darn feature.

I program to person this disabled connected my Jimny the adjacent clip I instrumentality it in. I wonderment if the aforesaid tin beryllium done connected the Punch.