Meaning of booster seat | Babel Free

Definitions

A small seat placed upon standard seating, particularly to enable children to eat at a table or (automotive) to allow safer use of regular seat belts.

Examples

“DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research⟳ consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk⟳ of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say⟳ that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"... LEVITT: I think⟳ what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take⟳ away from the research⟳ is we've put⟳ in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look⟳ at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind⟳ and shouldn't work⟳ at all.”

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