"WIDE LOAD" PROBLEMS
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"WIDE LOAD" PROBLEMS
Carmakers widen seats for wider ... seats
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
Tue Dec 27, 5:32 PM
If you gorged at the holiday buffet, don't worry: You'll still fit in your car.
As Americans grow heftier, automakers are making seats wider, adding more space to interiors and using bigger virtual mannequins to help design vehicles.
Domestic automakers say they already had seats for increasingly rotund motorists. Now foreign brands are catching up.
Extra-wide seats are important now that 62% of adults are considered overweight or obese, according to market research firm NPD Group. The figure has doubled since the late 1970s.
For the auto industry, the solution is not just about hippy seats. It's also wider cars.
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
Tue Dec 27, 5:32 PM
If you gorged at the holiday buffet, don't worry: You'll still fit in your car.
As Americans grow heftier, automakers are making seats wider, adding more space to interiors and using bigger virtual mannequins to help design vehicles.
Domestic automakers say they already had seats for increasingly rotund motorists. Now foreign brands are catching up.
Extra-wide seats are important now that 62% of adults are considered overweight or obese, according to market research firm NPD Group. The figure has doubled since the late 1970s.
For the auto industry, the solution is not just about hippy seats. It's also wider cars.
