Seatbelt muting or storing security risks

"Mom, how did this 'Mickey Mouse' plug into a seatbelt base?" "Oh, this is a clip that is used instead of a seat belt. By plugging it in, the car won't bark."

This is a dialogue between a five-year-old girl and her mother. The "Mickey Mouse" is commonly known as a seat belt mule buckle or seat belt buckle. If you do not want to wear a seatbelt, insert it on the seatbelt base. The car's unbelievable sound or warning light will be invalid, and the driver will be able to “end it once and for all” to avoid “interference”. However, this kind of seat belt muting deduction, is it a fraud, or deceive yourself?

"Eliminating the trouble of not wanting to wear a seatbelt"

Random search on the Internet, there are countless sellers selling silent deductions. Silent deduction has cartoon, cloth, rubber, imitation car logo, can be sold alone, can also be sold in pairs, prices ranging from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. The cartoon models are dominated by Mickey Mouse, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, while the “Magic Diamond-shaped Stereo” type buckle is even worth 300 pairs. Many of the stores advertised that: "The product is widely used in short trips, eliminating the need for you to worry about wearing a seat belt, especially for the front seat." A number of website transactions show that some of the cards have sold thousands of pairs.

Similar to the online hot sale, in the auto market and even in large supermarkets, the mute button is also very popular. In Wuhan Wuchang Nanhu Zhongbai Storage Supermarket, a dozen seat belt buckles are hung in a pile of automotive supplies, with different shapes. A pair of cartoon buckles labelled "Wancheng" brand name, price tag is 15 yuan, the computer ticket purchased is also "Chengda Guangming" written "car seat belt stereo letter buckle."

Silent buckles make the malfunction of the car more frightening

Every time you sell a seat belt muting buckle, there will be one less person wearing a seatbelt. Recently, the reporter randomly checked with the police of the Hubei Provincial Public Security Department Expressway Police Corps at the entrance of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao high-speed Wuhan West Tollgate station about 10 stop-in sedan cars. Two of them used a seat belt muting deduction.

According to the survey, private cars use a larger proportion of seatbelt muting deductions. The main reasons are: First, it is irrelevant that the department is not tied to the seat belts; it is too troublesome to take frequent trips while driving; second, the car is not tied to the seat belts too. "Irreverent"; the third is the seat belt "impeded tidy clothes."

In fact, the silent deduction is not only "cheating on the car" but also "injury." "The seatbelt dimensions are different, and the principle and structure of the seatbelt pre-alarm device are different. Using a silent buckle at will may cause damage to the vehicle's electronic system." 4S shop staff of a certain brand of automobile introduced.

And the silent buckles cause the malfunction of the car to be more frightening. At noon on September 17th, 2010, on the cultural road in Zhengzhou, an Audi automatic block car knocked down a man riding an electric car and stopped it. Then it suddenly started rolling from the hit man.

According to investigations, after the incident, Audi's driver once left the seat, looked at the situation outside the door, and left the brakes, eventually causing the vehicle to move forward again. The police said that leaving the driver's seat means unlocking the seat belt and the car should stop automatically. The police then discovered that the driver did not wear a seat belt but instead used a seat belt buckle. This buckle, so that the default driver of the car electronic hand brake system is still driving, and therefore did not start the electronic handbrake.

“Each car manufacturer has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to study how to use safety belts to protect passenger safety. Car owners also pay a considerable amount of money when they buy a car. However, a clip with a few yuan of money in the district makes it all lose. In terms of meaning, this is ironic,” said a 4S shop staff member. However, according to the survey, "more ironic" is that in some 4S stores, not only "quiet deduction" is sold, but also some are used as gifts when new cars are sold.

China Labor Insurance Network