A Dollop of Sour Cream     More on Car Seats  Click on the title
for an article describing (at least better) what Consumer
Reports did wrong.   No need to worry about your infant car seat
When Consumer Reports came out with the news that most of the
infant car seats on the market could not stand a side impact of
38 mph without failing catastrophically, it made big news. Only
2 seats were recommended, and within a week, they were very hard
to find in stock anywhere. People were throwing away their
existing seats and replacing it with one of the recommended
seats. People who had showers coming up were coming on to the
boards asking "What do I register for? By the time my shower
gets here neither of those seats will be available anywhere, but
I don't want my child to be in danger."  However, even at the
beginning, some people cried foul on the report. They noted that
one of the seats that failed had been a CR winner in 2005, and
no significant change in design had happened in between. The
results they were gett