Baby on Board sign?

[Mamawell]

What is wrong with a baby on board sign?

I've seen this come a lot on another thread, that it annoys people.

Why?

Hmmmm I think it can be.
You can think that all you want but it won’t make it true.

It’s been proven to be a myth by the person who invented them and by many emergency services personnel.

If people have them up because they want to let emergency services know there’s a baby in the car that’s obviously fine, but I don’t believe that’s why most people who buy them do it...

Yeah zigaziga, maybe people should put a sign beside their sign, identifying which 'type' of baby on board sign owner they are. 'Good baby on board sign owner' / 'smug parent' .

Yeah sorry but if you're so tired and exhausted that your driving and the safety of it is implicated, a crappy yellow sign that you hope will help you shrug off the blame is not good enough. Do not drive shattered. It's not worth it.

I think they're a nice signal that you're not going to speed, accelerate rapidly etc. Might stop some regular drivers being so impatient with you, although the real idiots who get right up behind you in a 30 zone etc probably won't change their behaviour regardless.

How could you notice a sticker on a window that was smashed? If a crash is bad enough to eject children and/or car seats, your window is long gone and the sticker with it.

How can that be smug?

Exactly. I honestly don’t understand this mentality. It’s alerting people to the presence of a child. It’s factual and contains nothing even remotely gloating. They are yellow and visible and probably do help draw attention in a crash. They certainly don’t do any harm.

Having a problem with them is just plain weird.

I think they're a nice signal that you're not going to speed, accelerate rapidly etc.

I have seen many drivers with BOB stickers doing exactly that, and tailgating.

I completely agree people shouldn't be driving like that whether there's a baby or not, but they do, but it's them reckless people that should take notice.

And just because I've got baby in the back, it doesn't mean im distracted at that point and driving badly, baby could be sound asleep, but I am going to be more cautious than normal, creating a distraction for anyone isn't going to help.

If someone doesn't care that there's a baby in the back and choose to continue to drive careless, that should on the reckless driver and not the concerned parent.

Maybe they're for people who install their car seats like idiots so they are more likely to end up thrown out of the car? :)

@sarge89

A police officer told me they're useful if you're in a crash then they know there may have been a baby/child in the car too. That's why I have one 🤷‍♀️

Do you remove it when the child isn’t in the car (eg driving home from dropping child at nursery)?

If not, why do you expect the emergency services to risk their lives searching around in your car for a non-existent child?

I hope the people who believe they are used in case of an accident remove them every time the car is used without a baby on board?

Exactly. I honestly don’t understand this mentality. It’s alerting people to the presence of a child. It’s factual and contains nothing even remotely gloating. T

Why am I supposed to give a flying fuck that there is a child on board. Why do I need to know? I'd rather not kill anyone whether they are 8 months or 80.

They are yellow and visible and probably do help draw attention in a crash.

No. They don't.

They make me cringe. What % of cars have kids in? You’re not special, take your sign off not envy

Why am I supposed to give a flying fuck that there is a child on board. Why do I need to know? I'd rather not kill anyone whether they are 8 months or 80.

If you don’t give a fuck then just move on. How are they affecting your life in any way?

No. They don't.

And your credentials to make that statement are what exactly? From a mid distance I’d say a yellow sticker is much more visible than a grey car seat.

@Henrysfakebarns

Wow I'm amazed so many . people feel this way about them! I get that you guys aren't about to drive dangerously but lots of people do, and a reminder that their stupid overtaking at a dangerous point might kill a kid surely doesn't hurt?

You are dangerously naive. A boy racer / bad driver / a car with brakes which don't work do NOT care if there is a baby on board sign.

You've also suggested that if someone doesn't have a BOB sign, people shouldn't drive safely around them.

Entitled people use them. I don't see a car with. BOB one and say to myself "ah, there's a child on board, I'll slow down".

Because nobody cares that you have a baby. And having a baby makes zero difference. I wouldn't feel worse about accidentally killing a baby than an adult.

@LonelyFromCorona

I think they're a nice signal that you're not going to speed, accelerate rapidly etc. Might stop some regular drivers being so impatient with you, although the real idiots who get right up behind you in a 30 zone etc probably won't change their behaviour regardless.

Exactly. Drivers who are going to tail gate / over take or cars which have terrible breaks do NOT discriminate against the magic sticker on your car.

Entitled parents use them.

Also, BOB signs don't make you a good driver. Plenty of them drive badly.

I saw a car sticker once that read “Keep your DISTANCE- give our CHILD a CHANCE”.

And your credentials to make that statement are what exactly? From a mid distance I’d say a yellow sticker is much more visible than a grey car seat.

I used to work for a company that dealt with written off vehicles for insurance companies. I've seen who knows how many severely damaged cars. If a car is so badly mangled that you can't see the occupants and interior of the car you are extremely unlikely to be able to see a 4 inch sticker amongst all that twisted metal and that's if it isn't on the ground or interior of the car amongst the remains of the glass it was attached to considering that the sticker is/was attached to a surface designed to shatter into tiny fragments in the event of a major impact.

Though you don't need to have worked in the vehicle industry to realise that.

@SerenDippitty

I saw a car sticker once that read “Keep your DISTANCE- give our CHILD a CHANCE”.

Oh for heavens sake. I nearly got sick reading that.

To be fair, if i didn't see that sign I would drive badly and kill the 40 year old driver, but as they didn't warn me , I won't feel bad about killing them

So what if it's basically pride - I don't think there's anything wrong with a bit of pride in your family - whether its baby on board sticker or "mums taxi" or whatever. People personalise the back of their car with all sorts - their favourite football team/religion (fish anyone?) / hobbies etc.

I don't like the BOB sticker and I'm not mad about those eyelashes for cars or the front grill poppy but its a free country.

If a car is so badly mangled that you can't see the occupants and interior of the car you are extremely unlikely to be able to see a 4 inch sticker

And maybe the back isn't that badly mangled. Maybe the yellow catches your eye while the carseat doesn't.

Given that are simply a piece of information, that you are free to ignore as much as you wish, why on earth are you so worked up about them?

Anyone else seized by an irrational desire to rear end cars when you see they have a Baby on board sticker?

I won't, of course, but my goodness they are goady entitlement incarnate.