Volvo tries out novel baby seat idea

In its never-ending quest to be different, Volvo thinks it may have come up with a cool idea to help parents deal with babies in the car.

Instead of strapping the kid into the child seat in back, Volvo is tinkering with the idea of taking out the front passenger seat and creating a pedestal. On it would be a swiveling baby carrier.

That way, one parent can sit in the back seat facing the child. Or the carrier can swivel towards the door.

Volvo showed the design recently in revealing its XC90 crossover in Shanghai.

"We started by asking ourselves if we could make life easier for parents and safer for their children when it comes to the child seat experience," says Tisha Johnson, chief designer of interiors at Volvo Cars Concept and Monitoring Centre.

She says the new positioning of the child seat would make it easier to get a baby or child in and out of the car, provide the kid with constant eye contact with the rear passenger and provide storage and all the baby stuff that parents carry.

While

it's a creative world concept, it could face trouble in the U.S., where many state require that children ride in the rear seat.