Bench seats are great for hanging out with afore mentioned dog and/or girl.
Bench seats are super shitty in any sort of side impact collision. There’s nothing keeping you in place except your safety belt.
We rented a van last year and only the front seats were bucket seats, the backseat of our car is a bench seat too. In both cases they’re not smooth across the back anymore like the one in the picture, all modern bench seats have divots too.
If you mean the middle rear, probably because there’s nothing in front of you. It may be the safest overall, not necessarily the safest in a side impact.
What additional factors does a bucket seat have to keep you in place during a side impact that a bench seat doesn’t? I don’t imagine the extra shoulder rest material really doing that much work.
actually that little extra material makes a big difference.
Look at it from the side (IE put a camera where your spine would be), same on the bottom where your leg would be. There’s several good square inches of ‘wall’, much more than just a seat belt.
And while it is angled up somewhat, the seat belt is doing a great job pulling you back down into it.
This exactly.
Bench seats are great for hanging out with afore mentioned dog and/or girl.
Bench seats are super shitty in any sort of side impact collision. There’s nothing keeping you in place except your safety belt.
We rented a van last year and only the front seats were bucket seats, the backseat of our car is a bench seat too. In both cases they’re not smooth across the back anymore like the one in the picture, all modern bench seats have divots too.
Sliding around is one part, the other is the lack of functional headrests in old trucks.
Idk GMC smoking crack putting those fakers in my 1994 K1500, they’re below my neck and not adjustable. Regulatory compromise, no care.
Then why is the middle seat the safest car seat?
People rarely sit there without someone on either side acting as a buffer
If you mean the middle rear, probably because there’s nothing in front of you. It may be the safest overall, not necessarily the safest in a side impact.
What additional factors does a bucket seat have to keep you in place during a side impact that a bench seat doesn’t? I don’t imagine the extra shoulder rest material really doing that much work.
actually that little extra material makes a big difference.
Look at it from the side (IE put a camera where your spine would be), same on the bottom where your leg would be. There’s several good square inches of ‘wall’, much more than just a seat belt.
And while it is angled up somewhat, the seat belt is doing a great job pulling you back down into it.
So kind of like the backseat of most modern vehicles?
Ever look at the back seat of a modern vehicle? It’s almost never a flat bench. There’s indentations, they’re just less deep than the front seat.
Yea, I own several. And they are not indented.