And also it turned out these bench seats are the very best way to install car seats.

So they just have these bench seats, and they strap the car seat and the seatbelt onto it.

Ejector seat?

This is a car seat that was installed by someone who has installed 1,000 car seats, who knew exactly how to do it.

That's my ejection seat.

Empty chairs... deep armchairs.

A seat works in a two dimensional world, where gravity blasts down on that seat, OK?

Having a flat back makes it much easier to install them.

In the front seats it's too bright.

And this crash would have been about a 450.

This magnificent pair of Louis XVI fauteuils.

The car seat's moving all over the place.

No, thanks. I'm trying to cut down.

I would like you to approve it for selling, then they would say, This is a fantastic new car seat, it works great.

This must be Mother Superior's chair.

In a fighter, you have an ejection seat.

Outer socket made by using heated high density polyethylene pipes, rather than using heated sheets.

And so this is a test that's very much rigged in favor of the car seat, OK? So, that kid in this crash fared very well.

Steven Levitt on child carseats

He pulled the seat ejector instead of the seat adjustor.

And I think this gives you a good idea of why parents think car seats are so great. Look at the kid in the car seat.

Because you'll release this section of the roof and engage and fire the passenger ejector seat.

So I did, although the seat was low and I couldn't see much.

Mary placed her baby in a car seat for the flight.

Aren't you afraid that I will pull the chair out From under you? I'll take a chance.

And these, to me, are the analogy for the car seats.

So, in some sense, what this is suggesting is that it's not just that people are setting up their car seats wrong, which is putting children at risk. It's just that, fundamentally, the car seats aren't doing much.

Here's our new car It gets great gas mileage, it has leather seats, buy our car.

If you put a child in a car seat, 18.2 percent of the children die.

So here this is the car seat. Now watch two things watch how the head goes forward, and basically hits the knees and this is in the car seat and watch how the car seat flies around, in the rebound, up in the air.

Bear in mind there are two things about this.

And so if we look at recent crashes the whole data set is almost 30 years' worth of data you won't see it in the recent crashes. The new car seats are far, far better.

The balconies come down, you see that the orchestra begins to have a rake that's frontal towards the end stage, and the seats come in.

It's a comment on the way in which we deal with public seating in the city of New York.

It doesn't turn out to be the case when you look at seatbelts versus car seats.

But what's interesting is the government telling us to use them is not actually based on very much.

The whole thing was upholstered in leopard skin... and had one of those car phones, all goldplated.

Last summer the Government of Iceland launched an initiative to reduce speeding and to improve seat belt use on rural highways.

So if somebody can reach under the chair that s next to them, you ll find something taped underneath it.

Give them a round of applause, as they go back to their seats.

That Arthur Seaton's going to get a good rattling one of these days.

Here you see the chairs being spun around to go from proscenium or end stage to thrust configuration.

Your seat, your sleep and your play on a big geodesic island made of leather.

Therefore, one of us sees the seats as blue, another sees them as brown, still another sees them as red.

And the other thing you might argue is, Well, car seats have got a lot better over time.