Don't want to create a brawl here or anything, but I just could never imagine even wanting to drive, or passenger in, a car without wearing a seatbelt. It would be as unthinkable as riding my motorcycle without a good helmet on. In both case, a belt/helmet has saved me from probable death, or at very least serious brain damage. In Australia, we were the first country in the world to make seatbelt wearing compulsory, back in the late sixties. The dramatic reduction in deaths and serious injury as a result should be enough to convince anyone. The very minor risk of a passenger acting as you suggest, and you not being able to counteract it, seems a poor offset against the clear risk of significant injury in an accident without a belt. I would think there is more opportunity for you to get out of the situation if it is across your chest vs behind you too. BTW, airbags are designed to protect a belted passenger.Just doesn't follow logic to me, or a good risk assessment

I suspect that when the seatbelt regs were introduced, the exceptions were made for political pragmatism rather than as a result of a full risk assessment.

Stuart

Don't want to create a brawl here or anything, but I just could never imagine even wanting to drive, or passenger in, a car without wearing a seatbelt. It would be as unthinkable as riding my motorcycle without a good helmet on. In both case, a belt/helmet has saved me from probable death, or at very least serious brain damage. In Australia, we were the first country in the world to make seatbelt wearing compulsory, back in the late sixties. The dramatic reduction in deaths and serious injury as a result should be enough to convince anyone. The very minor risk of a passenger acting as you suggest, and you not being able to counteract it, seems a poor offset against the clear risk of significant injury in an accident without a belt. I would think there is more opportunity for you to get out of the situation if it is across your chest vs behind you too. BTW, airbags are designed to protect a belted passenger.Just doesn't follow logic to me, or a good risk assessment

Well said.

The warning can be coded out with VCDS.

Do you not have a duty to inform passengers to buckle up though?? (may be difficult with the ‘do as I say and not as I do’ approach though)

Well ii cant force them into wearing a seat belt especially if there under the influence and if you tell them to belt up they may just get out and that loses me work