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I encountered this ad, and took a screenshot (posted below) of it.

This is probably NOT some the "I only play E-flat, because it does everything" type of player, but it may possibly (??) be for the "I'm running errands before-and-after this rehearsal/gig to save time/gas" type of person...

...and it's certainly for someone like ME - as I find myself with multiple personal instruments in my car (often: one of various tubas verticalized in the front passenger seat - possibly also with someone's repaired French horn...or some fairly heavy purchased-on-the-way items...on the seat itself).

I almost never carry any human cargo...ie. ALMOST NEVER does someone ask, "Hey bloke, can I ride with you from where you live in the middle of nowhere to your gig, as well as to some supply house, and to someone's house to drop off their repaired instrument?"...and it would be nice to (simply) keep one of these stuck in that slot (until-and-if there actually is a passenger), because it just doesn't occur to my to reach over there, pull out the seat belt, and click it in the slot. Also, the seat belt (when I do that - to stop the intermittent beeping) tends to get in the way of the things I'm carrying in-front-of/on that seat.
With my car, going over a bump or bottom of a hill can suddenly make the heavy stuff (in the front passenger seat) suddenly push down hard enough to "feel like" (to the sensor) that it's heavy enough to be a person, and the beeping commences - over-and-over, as the same conditions occur over-and-over.

...but bloke, why don't you just put those things in the BACK...??

because the BACK is often ALREADY full - thus wedging the last of the stuff in the front passenger seat and the slanted vertical space in front of it. This isn't just "extra tubas on the way to gigs"; it's also picking up a surprising large load ("Hey bloke, we found some more stuff for you") of repairs from a school, and being in my car - rather than in the work van (and/or "getting by" with the car - rather than the work van), due to the heavily manipulated fuel pricing.

...so it's probably not for everyone but - if there's one (not necessarily this brand) on eBay for four bucks - it could be for me.

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Which states are they prohibited in??

Three Valves wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:34 pm Which states are they prohibited in??

Per the lyrics to this song: "We gonna do it anyhow."
...just like a use my Valentine 1 in Virginia.

or you could just plug in the seat belt itself.

kingrob76 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:15 am or you could just plug in the seat belt itself.

I was going to use it for MY seat!!

(Yes, I always wear a seat belt going faster than I can ride a bike, say, 35mph+)

Three Valves wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:41 am

kingrob76 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:15 am or you could just plug in the seat belt itself.

I was going to use it for MY seat!!

(Yes, I always wear a seat belt going faster than I can ride a bike, say, 35mph+)

I worked in a photo lab for close to 4 years back when film was a thing. I've seen everything you can imagine. Wear your seat belt.

Buckle your seatbelt. Sit in front of it.

I would imagine this is helpful in places where a seatbelt would be silly... Like a 5 mile per hour truck on a college campus driving around to pick up trashcans. All that nonsense beeping for a work truck, farm truck, etc...

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:43 am Buckle your seatbelt. Sit in front of it.

I would imagine this is helpful in places where a seatbelt would be silly... Like a 5 mile per hour truck on a college campus driving around to pick up trashcans. All that nonsense beeping for a work truck, farm truck, etc...

But no good for me... if I exceed 35+ mph I need to put it on, which I can't, if I'm sitting on it.

Safety First!!

I'm sure I'm JUST as guilty as anyone else...but
we really do NOT read each others' posts prior to responding, do we?

I read it just fine.

Plug in the seat belt and leave it plugged in. You said you rarely have human passengers, so... leave it plugged in. Or spend your $4.

It will probably take less time to walk out to the car now and plug it in that it will to reply to this message.

Maybe I shouldn't ride my bike so fast??

Yeah… I’m pretty sure how I pointed out that the hooking-up-the-seatbelt strategy is a nuisance, because it gets in the way of the additional stuff that I’m trying to sit on the seat behind the verticalized tuba that I have sitting on the passenger floor and leaning against the back rest of the seat, but - if anything on this discussion list were actually important - we’d be paying to be here, wouldn’t we?
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Probably these:
- Most people buy larger cars than I do and simply buy more gas.
- Most people probably don’t multi multi multitask and drive around in their little cars jammed full of a whole bunch of stuff as much as they can manage to carry.
- I guess I’m a kook my high gas mileage small cars (manual shift, no less) filled up full of stuff that I’m trying to get moved around – running several errands at once including delivering repaired merchandise and combining that with picking up some supplies and playing a gig or two. (I need to try to remember that most people have “jobs“, whereas I’ve never had one, and try to continue to devise strategies so as I don’t have to go get one.)

One of my cars has this same problem. Even my dog would set it off and he was only about 30 lbs.

On one of my trips to the junk yard I just sliced a clip out of a donor car. They're not allowed to sell seatbelts out of wrecked cars anyway (at least not around here).

But I'm willing to add this to the extremely short list of "actually useful things that a 3-D printer can do." I want to like them but I just can't figure out anything worthwhile that isn't just decorative.

My 07 F150 actually has instructions in the owner's manual for disabling those alarms, presumably for situations where someone might be in and out repeatedly. Factory, college campus, farm, etc. My wife's brand new Subaru (5 speed manual, tyvm), on the other hand, is the very definition of a nanny. It starts beeping slowly and quietly, then 5 seconds later it's an annoyingly fast beep at earbleed volume. Even coming to a complete stop and taking it out of gear, or opening the door and exiting won't shut it off. There are two options. Shut down the car completely, or put the dang seatbelt on.

sdloveless wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:12 am There are two options.

There is a third. Discussed here.

My car was jam-packed full of horns (again) yesterday...
My smallest highest-gas-mileage car was JUST big enough to carry all the sousaphones and other stuff, so (per usual) I took that car.

Going downhill, the seatbeat beeper STOPPED, but - going uphill (making the instruments piled on the passenger seat - in effect - weigh as much as a small human) the beeping started back up...over-and-over.

FASTENING that seatbelt (as explained, yet ignored by one of those who responded) would have defined packing as more difficult (and more of a nuisance than the beeping noise).

again: I guess most people don't do what I do (OFTEN use ALL of their vehicles cubic feet of space), so it's difficult to empathize.

I had the seat belt beeper go off with nothing but a watermelon in the passenger seat. I then buckled the watermelon in for its safety.

Even western Tennessee – once you get past the northern capital of the Mississippi Delta – Memphis - is pretty freaking hilly
(as the southern capital of the Mississippi Delta is Jackson, Mississippi – a solid line along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River of blue poverty).

York-aholic wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:22 pm I had the seat belt beeper go off with nothing but a watermelon in the passenger seat. I then buckled the watermelon in for its safety.

OMG, I was just going to write the same thing, no lie. Black diamond watermelon, which is high in water content, even for a watermelon. HEAVY!