Welcome to the community @Robert1440! Glad to have you here!
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Welcome to the family brother @Robert1440 and we are happy to have you here.
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With most new cars you can have the dealer change many but unfortunately not all of the “safety” features. Sometimes you can change them yourself either with dashboard settings or random actions like closing and opening doors, turning on lights and clicking your heals together while wishing you were in Kansas:/ Guess the engineers get bored and like to mess with people occasionally? Sometimes the dealers are reluctant to disable safety features but if you tell them why you have a valid reason many will do it for you.
I was able to get the locks set on my work vehicle to not open automatically (for carjacking prevention) and had my seatbelt disconnect chime disabled. I always wear my seatbelt on the road but I often work on sites where I have to drive under 15 mph and exit the vehicle often. Having a vehicle that won’t let me take off in an emergancy because the seatbelt isn’t buckled sounds more like a scene from a horror movie to me than a safety feature.
As an interesting aside. Seatbelts do save lives in serious accidents but after seatbelt laws were enacted the number of accidents went up noticeably apparently because people felt safer with their seatbelts on and started driving less carefully. Don’t let your PPE or vehicle’s safety features give you a false sense of security!
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On my first car back in ‘79, I disconnected the ducking buzzer. Damn thang annoyed the hell out of me. As usual, companies over think what needs to be done and make things worse in the long run.
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Glad to be here as well.
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