Submit a Letter to the Editor | Meet the Editorial Board NEWSLETTERS The seat belts you probably didn’t even know you had By Alan Wirzbicki Globe Staff,Updated February 13, 2024, 3:00 a.m.

It also comes with an interesting design choice that's as functional as it is peculiar: the seat belt button. Have you ever been in a car and reached for the seat belt, only to find it tangled up, ...

Before, there was just a buckle fastened to a belt that flopped around on the seat. Buckles are now like belly buttons. We have innies and outies.

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Globe/T. Rob Brown (From left) Trentyn Seger, 8, Dinae Trudeau, 5, and Grace Nielson demonstrate how they and other children at La Petite Academy check their safety belts. The new booster-seat law ...

Red seat belt buttons look a bit out of place in luxury cars. Take this Mercedes S-Class interior, for example. It's filled with wood, metal, leather, plastic pretending to look like leather, and ...

Drivers in Kansas who do not buckle up will pay triple the price for a seat belt violation starting Saturday.

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Automakers have moved quickly to install louder, more persistent seat belt reminders since the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety began rating ...

Lifestyle People are only just learning what seat belt's round button actually does The functional purpose of the button on seat belts may come as news to you.

The flat dot on your car seat belt is officially known as the seat belt buckle button stop in most car parts and accessories marketplaces.