Product Description

This Car Seat Vest is truly a new and innovative concept! An alternative to booster seats, the RideSafer Travel Vest substantially increases the level of safety with exceptional crash test results. It also provides ease of use and flexibility for parents while providing more comfort for children. Research respondents overwhelmingly approved the Travel Vest and indicated that it provide excellent and superior solutions to many problems associated with currently available booster seats. From a traveling standpoint it is wonderful since it is so easy to take along, it is easy to install and it can be used in all rear seat position including the rear center. It is the world's first design that restrains similarly to adult seatbelts, covering the entire upper body. Designed to reposition lap belt below the abdomen, protecting organs, and it repositions the shoulder belt to the shoulder and away from your child's neck. The RideSafer can be used in the left, right, or center rear seats, moves easily from vehicle to vehicle on your children, and best of all, it meets or exceeds all standards of the FMVSS 213 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard). Editor's Comments: This certainly allows for easier trips and vacations and even at home it makes Car-Pooling easier and safer than ever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10659 in Baby Product
• Brand: Safe Traffic System Inc
• Model: Small
• Dimensions: 4.45 pounds

Features

• Meets or exceeds applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)
• Superior crash protection compared to traditional booster seats
• Innovative energy absorbing components and the design of vest distributes the crash force over a wide area of the body
• Portable, compact and easy to use
• Available in two sizes Small 3 - 6 years or 35 - 60 lbs. and Large 5 - 9 years or 50 - 80 lbs

Customer Reviews

Travel Vest -- WOULD NOT RECOMMEND
I would not recommend this product. My 3 1/2 year old daughter did not like it at all. She complained that it was uncomfortable even though she fit the specifications, she somehow managed to shimmy out of it while we were driving, at one point it tore into her neck, almost choking her. It seemed so unsafe and not well designed that we wound up having to go buy a car seat on our vacation. It was a horrible experience for us, very stressful dealing with her frantic screams since she is usually very calm. It did not seem safe or well designed to us. Would not recommend. I wanted to give this NO STARS but the system wouldn't let me so I give it one star for fitting nicely in our suitcase.

Convenient at the airport, cumbersome in the car
I bought this vest to take on our trip to the Grand Canyon, because I didn't want to lug our (small for his age) 6-year-old's booster seat around in the airport. The vest fit easily in the suitcase, even with the detachable headrest. The vest fit my son well and did a great job of positioning the seat belt. However, after we started driving I began to wish that I had brought the booster.

The first problem was that my son wasn't able to see out of the car window without the booster. This was unfortunate, because we passed a lot of scenery and wildlife that he missed out on. On the plus side, it may have prevented carsickness, since he couldn't see the passing landscape. The other problem was that he didn't want to wear the vest outside of the car (I couldn't blame him, the vest is thick and stiff, and the weather was hot). Our booster has one shoulder clip to position the seat belt, which stays in place all the time, so all you have to do is buckle the seat belt. The vest has two buckles across the front to secure the vest on the child, plus a shoulder strap and two lap clips to position the seat belt. Because my son didn't want to wear the vest outside the car, every time we got in the car we had to get my son's arms through the vest, buckle the two buckles on the front, and clip the seat belt into the two lap clips (we were able to leave the shoulder strap attached the whole time). Even if he had wanted to wear the vest outside of the car it would still be inconvenient compared to our booster, because it was fairly difficult to get the seat belt in and out of the lap clips. While my son can usually unbuckle his seat belf and get out of the car by himself, he could not manage to unbuckle the vest, so the whole routine had to be done in reverse at every stop, and he was not happy to be trapped in the seat. We did a lot of stopping at scenic overlooks, so this was a big pain.

If you don't want to lug a booster at the airport, and you don't plan to be in and out of the car a lot at your destination, then the vest is great. One review I saw suggested that parents would be trading their boosters for the vest for everyday use. I definitely do not agree, though it could come in handy for the occasional carpool where you need an extra booster.

great for carpooling in small cars
This is a great option for parents who need to fit 3 children in the back of a small car and/or need a child safety restraint that can safely be used with just a lap belt and top tether. We have a 1997 Honda Civic which has only a lap belt in the rear center seat, so the travel vest is the perfect thing to fit between my twin daughters' Britax Parkways because it's narrow enough to fit and because it can be safely used with a lap belt and top tether. And since it's very compact, I can just leave it tethered between the boosters so it's ready whenever we need to transport another child. And if we need to transport another adult in the back seat, one of my daughters will use the vest instead of the booster and the adult can sit where the other booster normally sits. Also it doesn't have an expiration date so as long as it's not involved in a crash, we'll be able to hand it down to another family after my daugthers outgrow it.