I'll be soon travelling to San Francisco with a toddler (2 1/2). Can we have her in a taxi without a carseat?

Will the taxi refuse us service? If not, is it against the law to not have her in a car seat in a taxi? I'm really trying to avoid lugging along a carseat. What's the practical thing to do?I'll be soon travelling to San Francisco with a toddler (2 1/2). Can we have her in a taxi without a carseat?
I would say so, it is illegal to not have a child in a carseat here... I don't think there is a practical thing to do, maybe see about if it is ok to just use one of those booster seats that aren't so bulkyI'll be soon travelling to San Francisco with a toddler (2 1/2). Can we have her in a taxi without a carseat?
i think it has sumthing to do with her height, but i could be wrong!
most definately she needs a carseat. its the law here and really is "lugging" around a carseat so bad that you would jeopardize her safety? SF cab drivers are not good drivers.I'll be soon travelling to San Francisco with a toddler (2 1/2). Can we have her in a taxi without a carseat?
I live just barely south of SF and I dont think you will have a problem at all. You might be required to have her sit on your lap. But if you just slap her in the car you will be fine. The cabbies dont really care at all.
It is illegal to transport her in any vehicle without a car seat.I'll be soon travelling to San Francisco with a toddler (2 1/2). Can we have her in a taxi without a carseat?
Some cab drivers will refuse you. It happened when we arrived back from a vacation in Hawaii. My son was four, and at that time the restrictions were different, he did not have to ride in a car seat. My son is very small for his age, and one cab driver refused to take us because we did not have his car seat. He said that he couldn't take the "baby"..... he obviously thought that my son was a toddler.



The cab drivers, as well as most of the other drivers here, are incredibly bad. Bring a car seat, the booster type, and buckle yourself up as well. I know that it is hard to tote that around when you are trying to do other things. I tried to find a convenient, travel, toddler car seat but nothing was foldable. Maybe that is a good idea for an invention? The safety standards are probably difficult to meet. I am assuming that you have a stroller to bring, so somehow maybe you can tuck the seat under the stroller when you are walking.



I hope that this helps.



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i've seen people do it all the time. just like busses not having car seats, or airplanes,etc
take the freakin car seat! Who cares what you have to lug.....It's better than lugging a body to the hospital, god forbid. safety first
It's technically illegal. Will most cab drivers care? No... of course not. Kids are in cabs without car seats all the time. However, San Francisco isn't a big taxi city, thus it's tough to flag down a taxi in most areas (as those passing have someone else in them)... so you have to call them. And most taxi companies have car seats available upon request... just ask when you call.



Also, to clarify some other things people mentioned... buses aren't required to have any safety restraint, thus carseats aren't required. Airplanes aren't automobiles, and even if they were, they're federally regulated, thus state/local laws don't apply - only federal laws. And, to my knowledge, there's no federal law requiring car seats.



And you can debate the safety of car seats all you want, blah blah blah... But it's a fairly new law, and I think most all of us here came from an era where we only were put in car seats before we could sit up on our own... by the time we were 2 1/2, we ceased to be in car seats (I don't even think they made car seats that big when I was a kid - and I'm not old, by any means)... and obviously we're alive. So...
i think that it depends on how tall she is and the taxi service that you use some may have carseats that you can use while your child is in the car. But i do not believe that you can because it is against the law to drive on the road in any car without using a child restraint.