Date: Wed, 12 Jul 00 14:39:21 GMT From: amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: PennyPinching - Unsafe Saab 9-5SE
In article <hmRsORc2ZU6rkCywi13XeL1kXm9Xnopsamcom> musicboxnopsamrider.co.uk "Violator" writes: > Now the sign does indeed seem to be connected somehow to the > passenger seat, [...] > For the record, it's a 9-3SE lpt, 2000 model year with heated > leather seats. These two facts could easily be linked. If I were designing a heated car seat, I'd want to include an occupant detector, so as to switch off the heater when no one is sitting there (or when the load is too small to be a person -- we don't want a heater coming on under seat-cargo that can't take heat). That detector _should_ be able to serve the second purpose of telling the seat belt detector when to ignore the "belt connected" signal. Okay, it takes an extra wire, from seat to central electronics. How "cheap" is the manufacturer feeling? Such penny-pinching is a trick GM should have learned to avoid (especially during last year's court case). SAAB should never have gone down that road at all. -- Andrew Stephenson
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