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

Ejector seat?

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

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?

In the front seats it's too bright.

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.

And the free cure is adult seatbelts, and the expensive cure the 300 million dollar a year cure is child car seats.

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

And this crash would have been about a 450.

In a fighter, you have an ejection seat.

This magnificent pair of Louis XVI fauteuils.

He pulled the seat ejector instead of the seat adjustor.

This must be Mother Superior's chair.

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

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.

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

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

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

Furniture set (chair, desk, bookcase, filing cabinet, visitor s chair)

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.

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.

Bear in mind there are two things about this.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I said we can shorten the column, we can spread it out to cover the couch.

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.

Highchair,highchair

Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars. However, during the question and answer session, he makes one crucial caveat.