Regulations (at least in the US) around car seats have made it more difficult to have three children without buying a larger car.
I dislike huge cars (I actually love tiny cars like the Nissan Figaro) but I may have to get one.
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Wow!
To add insult to injury, the crew cab weighs more, reducing usable towing and bed capacity, so now, about a quarter of the time I need a truck, I end up borrowing or renting a smaller, but higher capacity one.
The main competitor would be a car with a nice cab and car seat, and then a second beater truck with a single row of seating.
Alternatively, if someone made such a thing, but of course they don't, I'd like a little brick of an EV sedan that could tow as much as a large pickup (> 12,000 lbs), with no bed but a nice cab. The Rivian truck gets close to the towing requirement at 11,000 lbs, but for some reason their SUV only hits 7700. The BMW X5 hybrid is also close to what I'd be looking for, but still only hits 7700 lbs.
Instead of just requiring latch anchors, they should mandate that using all the latch anchors doesn’t reduce the max number of passengers.
Also, I wonder if they could eliminate booster seat requirements by mandating seatbelts that can be adjusted for short people.
As it is, we can’t take public transit, since the last few miles of most trips involves an illegal ride for the kiddos in an uber (so we have the kids walk those miles instead, which gets old fast).
Uber is a problem with really little kids, but you can get portable and even inflatable car seats and boosters that aren’t too bad to carry around.