a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , Arlington , Virginia.
Traffic Inj Prev. 2014;15(3):278-86. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2013.810333.
Passengers, especially those in rear seating positions, use seat belts less frequently than drivers. In-vehicle technology can inform drivers when their passengers are unbuckled and encourage passengers to use belts. The current study collected information about drivers' attitudes toward passenger belt use and belt reminders for front passengers and children in back seats.
A national telephone survey of 1218 people 18 and older was conducted, of which 477 respondents were drivers who transport a front seat passenger at least once a week and 254 were drivers who transport an 8- to 15-year-old child in the back seat. Respondents were asked about their attitudes toward belt use by their front passengers or rear child passengers and preferences for different passenger belt reminder features.
Ninety percent of drivers who regularly transport front seat passengers said that the passengers always use seat belts. Reported belt use was even higher among 8- to 15-year-old children in the back seat (97%). Among the drivers whose children do not always buckle up, about half said their child unbuckled the belt during the trip. Almost every full-time belt use driver (96%) would encourage front passengers to buckle up if not belted, compared to 57 percent of part-time belt users and nonusers. In contrast, nearly every driver who transports children in the back seat would encourage their belt use, regardless of the driver's belt use habits. Most drivers who transport front passengers wanted passenger belt reminders to encourage passengers to buckle up. Most of these drivers wanted a chime/buzzer or warning light or text display and wanted the reminder to last indefinitely. Most drivers who transport child passengers in the rear seat wanted the vehicle to indicate whether child passengers are unbuckled. A large majority of these drivers wanted notifications via a visual diagram of seating positions and belt use, a chime/buzzer, and a warning light or text display. These drivers also wanted the vehicle to provide belt use information until the child buckled up.
Many drivers, especially those who always use seat belts, said they would encourage unbuckled passengers to buckle up and supported auditory and visual belt reminders for passengers, particularly for children sitting in the back seat. Front and rear passenger reminders that last indefinitely would be acceptable to most drivers who transport these passengers. An auditory alert may be especially useful to alert drivers to children unbuckling in the back seat during a trip.
与驾驶员相比，乘客，尤其是后排座位上的乘客，系安全带的频率较低。车内技术可以提醒驾驶员乘客未系安全带，并鼓励乘客使用安全带。本研究收集了驾驶员对前排乘客和后排座位上 8-15 岁儿童使用安全带和安全带提醒的态度信息。
对 1218 名 18 岁及以上的人进行了全国性电话调查，其中 477 名受访者是每周至少接送一名前排乘客的驾驶员，254 名受访者是接送 8-15 岁儿童坐在后排的驾驶员。受访者被问及他们对前排乘客或后排儿童乘客使用安全带的态度以及对不同乘客安全带提醒功能的偏好。
90%的经常接送前排乘客的驾驶员表示乘客总是使用安全带。后排座位上 8-15 岁儿童的报告使用率甚至更高（97%）。在那些孩子并非总是系安全带的驾驶员中，大约一半的人表示他们的孩子在旅途中解开了安全带。几乎每个全职系安全带的驾驶员（96%）都会在乘客未系安全带时鼓励他们系好安全带，而兼职系安全带的驾驶员和不系安全带的驾驶员中只有 57%的人会这样做。相比之下，几乎每个接送后排座位上儿童的驾驶员都会鼓励他们系好安全带，而不管驾驶员的系安全带习惯如何。大多数接送前排乘客的驾驶员希望乘客安全带提醒能够鼓励乘客系好安全带。这些驾驶员中的大多数希望使用蜂鸣器/嘟嘟声或警示灯或文本显示器，并希望提醒持续无限期。大多数接送后排座位上儿童的驾驶员希望车辆指示儿童乘客是否解开安全带。这些驾驶员中的大多数希望通过座位位置和安全带使用情况的可视化图表、蜂鸣器/嘟嘟声以及警示灯或文本显示器来接收通知。这些驾驶员还希望车辆在儿童系好安全带之前提供安全带使用信息。
许多驾驶员，尤其是那些总是系安全带的驾驶员，他们表示会鼓励未系安全带的乘客系好安全带，并支持为乘客，尤其是为坐在后排座位上的儿童提供听觉和视觉安全带提醒。对大多数接送这些乘客的驾驶员来说，持续无限期的前后排乘客提醒是可以接受的。在旅途中，听觉警报可能特别有助于提醒驾驶员后排座位上的儿童解开安全带。
