Seat belt problems in Japan

Hello,

My name is Fujiwara from JPCTRADE.Today I am going to tell you about activities in our company and about the latest hot　topics about the car industry in Japan. We will try to provide you such hot topics as　regularly as possible so that you can read them when you have a free time.

June has started. A new law obligating the seatbelts for rear seats also started in Japan. Now, passengers on the rear seat risk falling in trouble with police if they fail to fasten　the belts and might get fined. The front seat fastening is complied by almost 100% of the drivers and it has resulted in accident death drop. This new law now aimed to decrease the death toll caused by rear passenger failure to fasten.　According to the police, the first year since enactment the violators are going to be warned without imposing any penalties. The strongest negative impact will be on the part of taxi drivers as they will have to ask every client to fasten the belts. Taxi drivers might get even penalized, if the customer fails to fasten. The situation is worse if the customer is mad or aggressive as taxi drivers in Japan cannot simply force them to fasten. All they can do is to loose such clients.　If taxi drivers are caught with unfastened client they will have to pay a big bite of their revenue.

This problem may create another problem to the cab drivers and taxi driver businesses. Every country has its own specific rules of seat belt fastening. In some countries seat belts are not mandatory at all. In New Zealand, for example, seatbelts are different from those in Japan and usually fasten from shoulders to abdomen. What is the seatbelt law in your country?　Does it impact any social class negatively?

Today is Tuesday, almost beginning of the week. We have received a lot of requests from different countries over the last weekend and now answering them all.　Among of these clients there was one from New Zealand who liked the functionality of our website. I called him to find out the car he is interested in.　After I called him he cleared all doubts about us he made a deposit via PayPal soon after, and have bid for Audi A6 which he was very close to get.　But, there was a competitor who overbid us.　Never mind there are plenty other auction houses and similar cars where we can get that car.　Meanwhile I will continue to look for a new A6 Audi for him.

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