{"id":654,"date":"2007-01-05T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/01\/05\/consumer-reports-has-infant-car-seat-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T20:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T02:36:49","slug":"consumer-reports-has-infant-car-seat-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports Has Infant Car Seat Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using an infant car seat or are in the market for one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/babies-kids\/child-car-booster-seats\/car-seats-2-07\/overview\/0207_seats_ov.htm\">Consumer Reports has some important information for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cars and car seats can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be sold unless they can withstand a 30-mph frontal crash. But most cars are also tested in a 35-mph frontal crash and in a 38-mph side crash. Car seats aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n<p>When we crash-tested infant car seats at the higher speeds vehicles routinely withstand, most failed disastrously. The car seats twisted violently or flew off their bases, in one case hurling a test dummy 30 feet across the lab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The punchline: of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/babies-kids\/child-car-booster-seats\/reports\/child-car-seats-ratings\/ratings-child-car-seats\/latest-ratings\/index.htm\">twelve seats they tested<\/a>, only the Baby Trend Flex-Loc and the Graco SnugRide with EPS performed adequately. In addition, they found problems with some seats and cars&#8217; LATCH system for securing car seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using an infant car seat or are in the market for one, Consumer Reports has some important information for you. Cars and car seats can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be sold unless they can withstand a 30-mph frontal crash. But most cars are also tested in a 35-mph frontal crash and in a 38-mph side crash. Car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consumer Reports Has Infant Car Seat Recommendations<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}