California Bill Would Ban Short Teens From Front Seat

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Booster seats up to age 10 is just the tip of the iceberg. What are people thinking?

Proposed California Bill Could Ban Front Seat for Undersized Teens Under 16

A new California bill introduced by Assemblywoman Lori Wilson is drawing both support and skepticism. If passed, the legislation would require children and teens under 16 years old to sit in the back seat of a vehicle if they don’t meet a minimum height or size requirement, in an effort to reduce injury risk during car accidents.​
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Under the proposal, children under 10 would continue to be required to use booster seats. Those ages 10 to 13—and older teens under 16 who are below a certain size threshold—would be legally restricted to the back seat.​

It seems pretty impractical and clumsy to enforce. What about 2-seaters?
 

It's seems like a height requirement they probably won't be able to enforce. And in many of today's cars one will be more cramped in the backseat ie some really big kids now a days.
 
Wait just a minute, don't teens take drivers training age 15, to get the drivers license age 16.
To selective tell a teen be they 4' something 6' something what they have to do, where to set,
well lots of broken windows up and down the streets are going to happen. How about the
school busses? So much crazy stuff coming from Cal. over the years. I would turn down
a free home in Beverly Hills, POC. Thass what they tell me.

I know lots of midgets live out there, they have their own lifestyles.
 
If kids' small stature is such that they run the risk of grave bodily harm, in an accident, by sitting in the front seat, and little risk by sitting in the back; a law may make some parents aware of that fact. Like it's illegal to have a kid sit on your lap in the front seat- same idea.
 
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Can you imagine how mortified 14 and 15 year olds will be sitting in the back while an older teen friend or sibling chauffeurs them around? Two teens in the car and the driver has to make the friend sit in the back seat because he/she is short. That's nuts.

Like @Pinky points out--there are smaller adults. Dunno why the CA officials who sponsored this proposal think reaching age 16 is going to magically overcome whatever danger a shorter person is at risk for riding in the front.
 
I agree a law on this is not practical or enforceable.

However encouraging people of any age who are shorter to sit in back seat for their own safety and to normalise booster seats by size rather than age seems good idea.
 
seems like a lot of nonsense that perhaps the state has bigger ( no pun intended) issues to deal with. the more and more restrictions IMO does not fix things only makes more take their chances ignoring such over reach. Enforcement non existent as well what a waste of lawmakers time
Many short people what could not learn to drive until after they reach 18?
 

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