Study on Car Seat Ease-of-Use Rating Based on Safety Factors in China

Abstract

Children are one of the most vulnerable groups in traffic accidents. Correct use of car seat can effectively reduce the children's injury and fatality in traffic accidents. First of all, this paper analyzes the trend of the children's injury and fatality caused by traffic accidents in China, and introduces the survey on misuse of car seats in several large cities in China. Then, this paper analyzes the children's injury by car seat misuse tests, and proposes the study method and framework about the Ease-of-Use Rating of car seat based on the different safety factors which are related to different misuse circumstances. Moreover, through the future analysis and verification, such as ease-of-use tests, misuse tests and hierarchical analysis, the China Car Seat Ease-of-Use Rating is proposed. This study will promote the industry to further emphasize the ease-of-use design of car seat, and also further improve the use rate of car seat in China.