Carista

Do you have any insights about this option? If you do, please let us know either here or email us at support@caristaapp.com In any case we will investigate if this is possible and it is, we will most likely implement it, but we can't promise anything.

We hope to have it available on amazon.com within a couple of weeks. We also have existing stock in Europe and are working out administrative details with Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de to make the adapter available there even sooner.

SJGQ5

Yeah..if there isn't a body in the front passenger seat heavy enough to activate the air bag, a warning light comes on on the dash..and never shuts off...until you get a body in the seat..Would be nice to disable the light as it is annoying

Russkii

Any plans to have adapter available on Amazon.ca/

Carista

OK, we will look into it.

It should be available around the same time it is available in the US; that is within a few weeks.

MP4.2+6.0

Huh? You are looking into facilitating the disabling of federally required safety equipment that involve lives, especially potentially young kids? And, what happens when the next buyer of the car later gets into an accident and the improper functioning of the disabled system is implicated, as are by the way the prior owner and the company involved to add to the (not) fun.

Sorry to be the killjoy, but after passively reading these for a while that seems pretty uninformed on the company side. Both as to what and why the equipment is there, and technically how it is set up. As in, good luck hacking it even if you weren't thinking through the issues here you should really be seeing on crash and safety systems.

It was actually a VAG vehicle BTW where one of the tragic incidents occurred that amped up the concerns to make the airbag set up more sophisticated as far as detecting things in the front seat. Air-Bag Concerns Heightened After Child Is Decapitated in Fender-Bender - latimes

For earlier poster, the classic solution for folks who really get bugged by it is a little black tape...which later owners can see (unlike an unreversed mod to a system) if you don't take it off first. The article should help give clues on why the decision was made as an outcome of investigations like the one linked to set these up as they are now.

Carista

We have not said that we are going to do it or that we are already doing this. We merely stated that since there is interest in a possible customization, we will investigate the issue further. That includes not only if it is technologically possible, but ALSO legal.

stash64

Will the latest app also be available for purchase on Amazon for kindle devices ?

SJGQ5

huh…really? the article is 19 years old. On top of that the question was can Carista deactivate the dash light..NOT deactivate the air bag..Perhaps your passive reading should be a bit more in depth before being so judgmental in your liberal rant!

MP4.2+6.0

Yes, I know exactly it is the light, but the light is there to tell you if the airbag is deactivated or not, like if the seat is actually occupied and thus there is an issue with the system, or if there is the correct child seat there that should deactivate it...rather than have the kid risk horrific injury. My reading was not at all passive per the off base critique, but while you are at it you might want not make faulty assumptions and perhaps get more familiar with the set up and rationale for the light.

Meanwhile, frankly if the vendor knew the car and the system better, they should know it isn't considered technically feasible, let alone not smart from a downstream liability perspective. Check your VCDS and let me know where you (don't) find it if you want to try an easy sanity check on non feasibility. The reason the article is 19 years old BTW is the fix mandated by NHTSA came off of that case in particular--as in, it's been set up that way a long time; LATCH system related mandates also came out of the experience. Sorry to bother you with the relevant history though, or how the light relates to the airbag safety function.

Next time as a suggestion, try to avoid shooting the messenger, and leave any political assumption baloney out of it. The vendor should have known to say thanks for the idea, but not feasible and it's a safety system that affects others in the car beyond the owner/driver.

Carista

Yes, we are working on it and it should be ready soon, but we don't have exact time estimate yet.