"Baby on Board", so buy a safe car.....
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Agreed, if people need to change their driving style when they see these yellow signs then I would suggest that they aren't driving as they should be in the first place.
Except the owners of the Baby on Board stickers rarely if ever remove them, so would be more accurate if they said "sometimes there is a baby in this car, but othertimes its just me"
So Emergency services could be looking for a baby thats safely tucked up in bed with a baby sitter/brother/sister/godparents whatever.
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That gets the BS award for the morning, granted its only 11:10 so we have time yet....
I thought women stuck them on cars so that there husbands couldn't pick up women when they are out in the car alone
thats exactly why they are done
I find the signs far more informative for saying "Driver not paying full attention to the road, screaming kid is more important".
But then I drive safely all the time, something that a lot of people who carry baby on board stickers could do to learn...
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I found they get given out a lot as presents, so it simply polite to fit it to the car.
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Maybe they can't afford fancy cars?
The signs are stupid yeah, but safe cars cost money, my parents couldn't afford anything other than a really run down runabout.
I'd rather they drive one of them and a big pointless city tank like all the suburban *** heads seem to round here. Or pointlessly drive a people carrier with one or two kids.
The signs are stupid yeah, but safe cars cost money, my parents couldn't afford anything other than a really run down runabout.
I'd rather they drive one of them and a big pointless city tank like all the suburban *** heads seem to round here. Or pointlessly drive a people carrier with one or two kids.
I've often wondered that, when I've ever found myself in my HGV for example, hurtling up to a queue of stationary traffic on the Motorway, I've not yet thought to myself
"Hmm, that car has a Baby on board, I must not crash into that one then......"
They advertise the driver to me as "potential moron ahead!"
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[TW]Fox;10626183 said:
Its not an admission to anything and anyone who says they pay complete attention/concentration 100 percent of the time is lying imo of course.
My wife has Princess or Babe or some such sign. Its pink and I think its particularly low rent.
However, that fact that it upsets some people it will remain in place.
Those that are offended by them really need to get a grip. IMO, its got nothing to do with whether your driving too close and your endangering my child.
Unless your a complete halfwit (and if you were you wouldn't notice the sign anyway) you would keep a reasonable distance in any case. A low speed rear impact isn't going to harm a child too much - their more bendy than adults and quite resilient. They are not made of china, I know, I have one.
If the speeds were such that serious injury occured, the speeds would be too high to read the sign in the first place!
The sign does however alert you as the person driving behind that there are children in the car in front and children are a distraction much the same as a phone, smoking, or eating.
They fidget, they ask questions, they fight, they spill drinks, they ask you to take half eaten food, they want to play eye spy etc etc.
How about this - the person with the sign and the child is warning the car behind may do something unexpected so please be wary of said car. I've wondered across lanes on a motorway after my child threw up everywhere and needed supervision in order to not choke. Maybe a car behind saw the sign and thought I'll hang back a bit just in case. If the sign wasn't there and I swerved a serious accident could have happened.
Rant over.........now then............wheres the thread on mother and baby spaces!!!!
However, that fact that it upsets some people it will remain in place.
Those that are offended by them really need to get a grip. IMO, its got nothing to do with whether your driving too close and your endangering my child.
Unless your a complete halfwit (and if you were you wouldn't notice the sign anyway) you would keep a reasonable distance in any case. A low speed rear impact isn't going to harm a child too much - their more bendy than adults and quite resilient. They are not made of china, I know, I have one.
If the speeds were such that serious injury occured, the speeds would be too high to read the sign in the first place!
The sign does however alert you as the person driving behind that there are children in the car in front and children are a distraction much the same as a phone, smoking, or eating.
They fidget, they ask questions, they fight, they spill drinks, they ask you to take half eaten food, they want to play eye spy etc etc.
How about this - the person with the sign and the child is warning the car behind may do something unexpected so please be wary of said car. I've wondered across lanes on a motorway after my child threw up everywhere and needed supervision in order to not choke. Maybe a car behind saw the sign and thought I'll hang back a bit just in case. If the sign wasn't there and I swerved a serious accident could have happened.
Rant over.........now then............wheres the thread on mother and baby spaces!!!!
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