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| RideSafer Car Seat Travel Vest - Size Small | 
 enlarge | Brand: Safe Traffic System Inc
Category: Baby Product
Buy New: $99.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7919
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
MPN: AO10100LGB
Model: Small
UPC: 895376000019
EAN: 0895376000019
ASIN: B000KCV61U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Meets or exceeds applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) | | • | Superior crash protection compared to traditional booster seats | | • | Innovative energy absorbing components and the design of vest distributes the crash force over a wide area of the body | | • | Portable, compact and easy to use | | • | Available in two sizes Small 3 - 6 years or 35 - 60 lbs. and Large 5 - 9 years or 50 - 80 lbs |
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Product Description
This Car Seat Vest is truly a new and innovative concept! An alternative to booster seats, the RideSafer Travel Vest substantially increases the level of safety with exceptional crash test results. It also provides ease of use and flexibility for parents while providing more comfort for children. Research respondents overwhelmingly approved the Travel Vest and indicated that it provide excellent and superior solutions to many problems associated with currently available booster seats. From a traveling standpoint it is wonderful since it is so easy to take along, it is easy to install and it can be used in all rear seat position including the rear center. It is the world's first design that restrains similarly to adult seatbelts, covering the entire upper body. Designed to reposition lap belt below the abdomen, protecting organs, and it repositions the shoulder belt to the shoulder and away from your child's neck. The RideSafer can be used in the left, right, or center rear seats, moves easily from vehicle to vehicle on your children, and best of all, it meets or exceeds all standards of the FMVSS 213 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard).Editor's Comments: This certainly allows for easier trips and vacations and even at home it makes Car-Pooling easier and safer than ever.
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| Customer Reviews:
great for carpooling in small cars September 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great option for parents who need to fit 3 children in the back of a small car and/or need a child safety restraint that can safely be used with just a lap belt and top tether. We have a 1997 Honda Civic which has only a lap belt in the rear center seat, so the travel vest is the perfect thing to fit between my twin daughters' Britax Parkways because it's narrow enough to fit and because it can be safely used with a lap belt and top tether. And since it's very compact, I can just leave it tethered between the boosters so it's ready whenever we need to transport another child. And if we need to transport another adult in the back seat, one of my daughters will use the vest instead of the booster and the adult can sit where the other booster normally sits. Also it doesn't have an expiration date so as long as it's not involved in a crash, we'll be able to hand it down to another family after my daugthers outgrow it.
 Convenient at the airport, cumbersome in the car August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this vest to take on our trip to the Grand Canyon, because I didn't want to lug our (small for his age) 6-year-old's booster seat around in the airport. The vest fit easily in the suitcase, even with the detachable headrest. The vest fit my son well and did a great job of positioning the seat belt. However, after we started driving I began to wish that I had brought the booster.
The first problem was that my son wasn't able to see out of the car window without the booster. This was unfortunate, because we passed a lot of scenery and wildlife that he missed out on. On the plus side, it may have prevented carsickness, since he couldn't see the passing landscape. The other problem was that he didn't want to wear the vest outside of the car (I couldn't blame him, the vest is thick and stiff, and the weather was hot). Our booster has one shoulder clip to position the seat belt, which stays in place all the time, so all you have to do is buckle the seat belt. The vest has two buckles across the front to secure the vest on the child, plus a shoulder strap and two lap clips to position the seat belt. Because my son didn't want to wear the vest outside the car, every time we got in the car we had to get my son's arms through the vest, buckle the two buckles on the front, and clip the seat belt into the two lap clips (we were able to leave the shoulder strap attached the whole time). Even if he had wanted to wear the vest outside of the car it would still be inconvenient compared to our booster, because it was fairly difficult to get the seat belt in and out of the lap clips. While my son can usually unbuckle his seat belf and get out of the car by himself, he could not manage to unbuckle the vest, so the whole routine had to be done in reverse at every stop, and he was not happy to be trapped in the seat. We did a lot of stopping at scenic overlooks, so this was a big pain.
If you don't want to lug a booster at the airport, and you don't plan to be in and out of the car a lot at your destination, then the vest is great. One review I saw suggested that parents would be trading their boosters for the vest for everyday use. I definitely do not agree, though it could come in handy for the occasional carpool where you need an extra booster.
 great protection! August 11, 2008
Well worth the money! Much better than other travel vests I have used, as my child really is secure in her belt, with the vest holding it in just the right places to make the seat belt work as it should! My daughter loves to wear it, as she says it looks like a space suit, and it is simple to use- just 3 quick buckles to put on the vest and then the seat belt fits as it should. She can still move and adjust in her seat and the belt is still in the right places-down low on her hips and to her side near her shoulder! I've used other products, but they look more like a seat belt in form, but do not function like this one. We live in NYC and do not have a car, but do rent and go on vacations and have used this a lot in our almost 2 years since purchasing it! The only down side is that our daughter is not sitting higher like in a booster seat to see out the window. We are looking forward to our son growing big enough to fit this, and our daughter can then wear the larger size! This was great to have on our trip to Europe and saved us from having to tote 2 car seats on the plane! I think it could be FAA approved without too much trouble if the company tried, as on the plane my daughter wasn't allowed to wear it, but without it, her plane seat belt kept hiking up around her belly when she wiggled about like normal children do.
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