No seat belt.

[F3dzo]

It's so annoying that I put my seatbelt on even before it comes on...

[chulooz]

Originally Posted by boredom.is.me

Oh I wasn't being sarcastic or anything like that. I was just curious to know if there was an average impact speed since you brought up statistics.

I know what you mean about the 40mph jackass though. I've been paranoid about being a passenger since I lost my best friend due to a drunk driver right before Christmas. I was riding with a college friend, four of us in the car, and he decides to try and drift... his front wheel wrx. Before I could tell him to quit, we went straight into a small tree in a crowded walmart parking lot at 9pm. Everyone was alright, but never again. That only raised my paranoia.

Tell us more...

Good luck with the damn chime, let us know how you go about it.

[zooki]

I just had my dealer turn it off through the tech stream hookup.

[Yruyur]

For both driver and passenger?

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[zooki]

Yep, all I have is the light on the dash now, no chime at all.

[boucher]

My friend's STi had a sequence of plug/unplug the seatbelt that would dissable the chime. This feature was nice for anybody who took out the factory belts and installed harnesses. Maybe the FR-S/BRZ has a similar way to beat the chime.

[Nate219BRZ]

I was about to say what if your putting in a harness system instead of the standard over the shoulder system. Theirs a way to disable that chime guaranteed.

[KritiK]

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[Wolfking]

Originally Posted by wheelhaus

I'm buckled up 100% of the time. I also encourage others to buckle up, but respect their choice not to do the same.

It's an IQ test, really. Kind of like the one helmet-less motorcyclist constantly fail; but hey, how YOU donate your organs is your business!

[TuxedoCartman]

Originally Posted by wheelhaus

If this is a REAL statistic, I'd like to see it published in official government documents. Moreso, I'd also like to see the percentage of said collisions that resulted in an in-car occupant receiving serious injuries or death from not wearing a seatbelt, or where a seatbelt had likely prevented such injuries.

The NHTSA does not keep track of parking lot accidents; however, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does. And according to them, just over 20% of all crashes take place in a parking lot.

As for the question of low-speed fatalities, I suggest you look at statistics for motorcycle fatalities in states that don't require helmets... then consider that motorcycles don't even have an explosive device aimed at the rider's head (aka, an airbag, which is designed to be safe only in conjunction with a seatbelt). It doesn't take much speed to be lethal; if memory serves, Indian Larry was doing less than 30 MPH when he fell from his bike and died. Lest you dismiss motorcycle riding as being more dangerous somehow than car driving, NHTSA data states that the vast majority of fatal accidents occur under 50 MPH, and someone cited in a presentation Australian data that concluded that most fatalities occur under 50 KPH (which would be 30 MPH here in the states). Another source I couldn't verify, yet seemed legit, stated that researchers expect fatalities at 15 MPH, if the occupant isn't wearing a seatbelt.

Now, maybe you live in Maybury, where everyone obeys the limits, and uses their turn signals every single time; but where I live, oh yeah... I've seen people doing over 40 across parking lots (usually while cutting across lanes to get to the other side faster). In their haste to get to an empty spot, I've seen people whip into my lane, on my side of the road. Residential streets around here are certainly no better. So yes, it is unsafe to be in a moving vehicle in a parking lot without your seatbelt on.

As for how did this thread get so far off topic? Easy: we make fun of stupidity. You know how, every so often, you get the dumb kid on here (or other car forums) that wants to know which local roads people drift on, or thinks he's cool for posting video of himself street racing on a highway... and the whole community comes down on him like a ton of bricks for engaging in mind-numblingly stupid, dangerous behavior? Yeah... this is the same thing. Sure, we could stick to the topic the OP posted, and just be helpful. OR... we can hopefully shame him into being a smarter driver through peer pressure. At the very least, it teaches the little ones that this is NOT acceptable social behavior (something they may take as tacit approval by silence otherwise).

That is all.

[boredom.is.me]

Originally Posted by chulooz

Tell us more...

Good luck with the damn chime, let us know how you go about it.

not sure if you were being sarcastic but... He dropped out of my school and went to police academy. That was the least of it though.

[#87]

Originally Posted by wheelhaus

How did this thread turn from "how do I disable the annoying seatbelt chime" into "you dumbass, I hope you enjoy getting yourself killed".....?

Because internet...

Basically any thread that deviates from sainthood will generate flame, which is funny because when I am driving I see maybe 1% of drivers actually driving the speed limit or under.

[swift996]

Dumb law, it should be an individual choice, but people have a hard time living with the consequences of their own decisions.