If you have a , say , 2-5 year old AND an avail space in a back seat - why would you put a child in the front passenger place in a car seat , even if it's a vehicle where you can turn off the front passenger airbag ? How will you feel if you have a truck hit you head on and you as a driver are OK due to air bag deployment , but your front -seated kid is mangled due to air bag being off ( and not much better if he had been wacked by the air bag if it WERE on ). It's a NO WIN situation for the kid and you made that decision for him. It's great to be a "libertarian" , huh - like all those guys living paycheck to paycheck who say it's THERE life if they choose not to wear a motorcycle helmet on their Harley , but then conveniently declare bankruptcy so the taxpayer foots the $ half million hosp and rehab bill at the decrepit deficit ridden county-government run trauma center/ hospital which by the way is where 90% of the field injured are taken in most places no matter how tony your home zip code is.