Xportation Safety Concepts Unveils Airbag-Compatible Infant Seat

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 29 -- Colorado-based Xportation Safety Concepts Inc. has announced it will unveil its new Pioneered(TM) II Airbag-Compatible Infant Seat at the annual Juvenile Products Trade Show to be held May 2-4, 2003 in Dallas, Texas.

"The Pioneered(TM) II seat offers a safer traveling environment for infants than any other known child protection seat," says Dan Goor, XSCi's Vice-President of Technology. It allows parents and caretakers to securely put an infant in the front seat of an automobile or truck equipped with an airbag.

Established in 1993, Xportation Safety Concepts Inc. was set up to evaluate and market transportation safety products that were developed by technology innovator GA International of Colorado. The Pioneered II Infant Safety Seat will be introduced to the marketplace after ten years of development.

The Pioneered Safety Seat redirects crash energy through a Deflector Base and away from a baby within the inner cradle. The inner cradle is isolated further by being secured into a shock-mounted holder.

The carrier cradle moves independently from the protective shield of the deflector base and is designed with an energy helmet-like deflector shield to further protect a baby. Therefore, momentum from a sudden stop or a crash is transferred to the automobile seat and away from the infant. It is designed to protect the baby by isolating it from the impact points experienced by conventional car seats.

The patented Pioneered II Airbag-Compatible Infant Seat, with or without an airbag, uniquely meets the pending government safety standard FMVSS-213 for 2004. It was successfully tested to meet this standard while interacting with an airbag, and also while interacting with a solid barrier representing a dash with no airbag; or, when placed in the back seat, simulating interacting with a console, or the rear of a front seat.

Importantly, the Pioneered II Airbag-Compatible Infant Seat also helps eliminate distractions from rear-facing infants in the back seat. Based on a number of studies, and a growing body of evidence, back seat distractions from rear-facing infants are the cause of more crashes than are rear-facing infants sitting on the front seat. More info: http://www.safeinfant.com/ .