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It's a result of compromise. Car seats unfortunately have to be a one-size-fits-all deal to maintain profit margins, and while I personally prefer more supportive seats to hold me in place around freeway interchanges, consumers like the OP want cushy pillow-top seats in the same car.
Alot of the hardness in seats are because of Federal accident injury specs. A soft seat will give in say an accident when the seat belt and airbag come out. While this sounds good, it is like being on a ship in rough splashing waves over the deck. If you are not against the side of the cabin if you are on deck, and i mean pressed against it when the water hits you, the force of it slamming you into that side of it can hurt or kill you. Softer seats are like you standing 2 feet from where you should have been pressed against the side. I wish the softer seat would come back, but safety says forget about it.
Alot of the hardness in seats are because of Federal accident injury specs. A soft seat will give in say an accident when the seat belt and airbag come out. While this sounds good, it is like being on a ship in rough splashing waves over the deck. If you are not against the side of the cabin if you are on deck, and i mean pressed against it when the water hits you, the force of it slamming you into that side of it can hurt or kill you. Softer seats are like you standing 2 feet from where you should have been pressed against the side. I wish the softer seat would come back, but safety says forget about it.
I did not know this, thank you for that. No wonder modern car seats are so damn firm.
I don't know about lightweight - a BMW power seat can weigh 100 pounds with all its electronics, motors, heating, cooling, etc.
Seats are however firmer than they used to be - that is based on popularity. Older style seats like you used to find in Crown Victorias are nowhere to be found now afaik.
Good point about the power seats. Those things can weigh almost as much as I do, whereas the manual seats from an equivalent model car weigh only a fraction as much. BMW probably doesn't even offer manual seats on any US models anymore, but some other cars have non-powered seats in some models. They're getting fewer though.
Hard seats are comfortable. They don't compress the soft tissues like cushy seats. They allow you to properly use your skeleton for support.
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