Ok, may have to correct myself. My parents drive for Children's aid, they say you are not allowed but I cannot find on the MTO website saying no front seat.

My bad :tiphat:

:iagree: Here in Red-neck country, you can.

there is a reason cars come with an airbag override, its so you can have babies in front. its not illegal when you have a two seater.

a baby right next to you, cant be more safe than that

Perhaps...if your car has a back seat, child seat must be placed there.

Looks like this link has some good info.

Child restraint laws

For Florida specifically, it just says that a rear facing car seat should not be placed on a seat with an active airbag. To that, I ask this question, for cars with curtain side airbags...how safe is a child in the back seat? My guess is no safer than in the front seat...

Also pulled this up:

http://sheriff.org/safety/carseat.cfm

It's for Broward County specifically so I'm wondering if child safety laws differ from county to county...?

When I was a baby (early '70s), my parents would have just tossed me in the back & let me crawl around. Seriously. I remember riding int he back of our Corvette all the time when I was probably 6 or 7 or so. And there was nothin' like sleeping in the rear window shelf of the Cadillac during a road trip.

...and somehow I survived...

Side curtain airbags don't deploy with the same kind of force

Maybe not...but do you really want any kind of airbag hitting your kid? I guess if you really think about it...the only safe spot would be in the center of the back seat or something.

...side airbags dont "hit" they roll down. thats why theyre called curtain airbags. theyre there to catch you. they dont shoot out AT you

Ah...that would make sense. Never had a car with anything other than front airbags so I wouldn't know.

babies are a nice alternative to spare tires, too. They're still podgy and malleable at that age, and they won't remember any of it happening.

they make great buffers lol

IIRC the manual said that the airbag is disabled when using the child seat anchor points.

my dog sets the airbad light on and off in the front seat. hes only 20lbs.....

A couple of Z owners with super-skinny gf's (under 100lbs) said that the airbag is deactivated when their girlfriends are in the passenger seat.