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by harg 1439 days ago
> How often do your seatbelt warning give out false positives?

Never, in any car I’ve ever been in, have I seen a false positive seatbelt warning.

4 comments

Exactly, that's his point: Those systems are tolerated because they don't have false positives.
This happens to me all the time when I put a backpack with 3 computers in it on my passenger seat.
I’ve seen it many times. Every time I put a heavy object on a seat without plugging the seatbelts in.
Now imagine this happening, but rather than being still at the car park you are on the highway and the situation is requiring a lot of concentration, and you can't just plug in the seatbelt to fix it.
You don’t need to convince me. I’m very much against all these stupid car features that you’re not allowed to control. Breaking the stop start motor in my car was tedious enough, but a lot of these new features can’t be defeated so easily.
In my BMW, I can trigger a false positive by plugging my iPad or iPhone into the car's USB charging port, and setting it on the passenger seat.