Do you use them ? Are you adamant about other adults in your car using them? If so, what do you do or say if they don’t?
I use them 100% in every vehicle I’m in. I only infrequentlyv drive around others, but only had to deal with this one time when I was driving c2 younger coworkers in my mini van and I asked them to buckle up when they didn’t automatically. And they made fun of me - “ok, Mom.” Last week I was riding with others and one person (approx. 80 year old) continually pulled out of her shoulder strap. I could tell it annoyed the driver but she didn’t say anything.
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Yes because the car tells you if you’re not. And tells you. And tells you until you latch it or that other person latches it.
You listen to chimes for the entire drive if not latched. I drive people to lunch - and if they don’t put on the belt, I tell them - no embarrassment. If they call you mom, oh well - their issue, not yours.
I find it crazy some don’t on their own.
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We wear our seat belts 100% of the time and I’m not pulling out unless everyone is buckled up. Our car also will beep continuously if it senses someone in the seat and the seatbelt isn’t attached.
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I’m going to give a pass to the older person because my mom did that. For some reason the shoulder strap bugged her. Maybe it’s a sore shoulder, idk
The younger people are being jerks. And calling you out is obnoxious
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I won’t allow anyone to ride in my car without fastening the seat belt. If they want to hear a quick lesson on the laws of motion I will oblige but if they don’t buckle up we’ll be doing it in the driveway.
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I have to say that I cannot think of an instance where I had someone in my car, or whose car I was in, where someone was not wearing a seatbelt. Like, never. It’s just as automatic as closing the car door before pulling away. I would not drive anyone who did not wear a seatbelt.
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100%, all riders in our car. I don’t really care how anyone feels about it. IF I had an accident and they were injured or dead, nobody would feel good.
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I always buckle up. No one rides in my car unless they are buckled up. I watched a movie called Mechanized Death in driver’s training, and it made a huge impression on me (as did the lessons I learned in physics classes). I have heard plenty of excuses from people about why they won’t wear seatbelts - my SIL didn’t wear one for years unless she was in our car (that was always quite the argument) - but I don’t care … my car, my rules.
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My ex-sister in law wouldn’t wear seatbelts because they wrinkled her clothes. I never drove her, but I would have insisted she wear it on drive herself.
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100% of the time, and no passengers unbelted.
OK, one exception. Thirty years ago, when I was in labor, in acute pain and unable to tolerate sitting, I lay down on our back seat as my husband drove to the hospital in a snowstorm. 
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Interesting point about the chime. My mini van was older 2011 and the recent vehicle was a 2014 and we didn’t hear a chime. Although does it chime when it’s clicked but the shoulder strap is pulled down? I had a feeling this person pulled down the shoulder strap often. I understand because my old van driver’s shoulder strap would rub my neck, which was why I always wore something with a collar when I drove a distance. My new car driver seatbelt fits better. We were both in the back seat and are about the same height and I thought the shoulder strap fit fine.
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If the seat belt is clicked, the chime goes off. The shoulder harness not being in the correct position would not elicit a response from my car.
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I’m amazed this is a question and I’m amazed anyone wouldn’t use the seatbelt.
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Apparently you don’t live in a part of the country where some people take pride in their defiance of laws. Even laws that might protect them. It’s not infrequent I read “wasn’t wearing a seat belt” in articles about accidents. Often with the word “ejected.”
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I can’t recall a time I was in a car with someone not in a seatbelt. It’s just routine that one learns as a child.
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It happens - when I’m taking a car dealer person to lunch, they often don’t belt til i tell them - and its more the car telling me by the annoying chime. They think nothing of it.
I agree with your sentiment though - someone above said it’s as ingrained as closing the door - and that’s how I am. I’d feel naked without.
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I was curious and my state put mandatory seatbelts into law Jan 1986.
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There was a very well known, highly respected doctor who was chief of emergency services at a local level one trauma ER. He was killed in a car crash, and he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. That really puzzled me, because he saw firsthand what happened when seatbelts were worn - and when they weren’t worn.
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Yes, and Yes.
My parents got seat belts added to our car when they first became available, long before they were required.
I got a bike helmet when I started graduate school, long before they were common.
My wife made me get a ski helmet when our daughters took up skiing. We insisted that they wear a helmet, and it did not seem fair to require them to wear a helmet unless I also wore a helmet.
I have been using seat belts, and a bike helmet, and a ski helmet for decades. In all of those years, all of them taken together have only saved my life once. What’s the point?
It was by the way in a ski accident – it was the ski helmet that saved me. I have not used the same helmet again but instead bought a new one. I still have the one that saved me.
Another time when I was chaperoning ski club in middle school, one of the students in my group went head first into a tree. He lay on the ground in pain for a few minutes. A ski patrol stopped and called for a stretcher. Before the stretcher arrived the kid jumped up, and started racing down the hill. I apologized to the ski patrol who said “This is fine, this is what usually happens, and this is what we prefer to see happen”. Then I went racing downhill after the kid. I suspect that the helmet probably saved him.
Yes. I always use seat belts.
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I always wear seatbelts any everyone in any vehicle I drive wears them, all the time.
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