When I was a kid, back in the days when Corvairs roamed the earth, my buddies and I rode in our families' clunkers unencumbered by pesky safety devices. We would wave our arms out of windows, have boxing matches in the back seat and fiddle with the door-locking buttons before Mom delivered her don't-make-me-pull-over speech. When I look back on those family car trips, I shudder at how dangerous they were.
Car crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among U.S. children, and though most of us now think of car seats as standard baby equipment, about half of...
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