Ride Safer Travel Vest Generaton 6, Black (2 Sizes)

RideSafer® Travel Vest Generation 6 is a revolutionary, wearable child restraint for children 3 years and up; easy, safe, convenient and legal! RideSafer is the safe and compact alternative to a traditional booster car seat, ideal for taxis, ride-shares, carpools and families with multiple vehicles, Its unique 3-clip design helps position the vehicle seat belt correctly, while adjustable straps provide a comfortable fit as children grow. Built-in padding helps absorb and dissipate crash energy, and the vest allows children to sit further back and lower on the vehicle seat for added comfort. 

• Crash-tested and Safety Certified. RideSafer meets or exceeds Federal standards in FMVSS 213, including updates FMVSS 213b
• Lightweight, portable and convenient when traveling with kids. It can fit in your child's backpack).
  
• Easy to use when travelling with children and safe in taxis and ride-hailing services like Grab/Gojek
• Increased safety and comfort by allowing the child sit further back and lower on the more comfortable vehicle seat
• Adjustable straps allow for growth (up to the next size)
• Padding absorbs and dissipates crash energy from seat belt
• Vest comes with tether strap, crotch strap and carry bag
• Small (Gen 6A): Suitable for 3-6 years | Weight: 12kg - 22.7kg | Height: 86.4cm - 125cm 
• Large (Gen 6A): Suitable for 5-11 years (min age is 3 years) | Weight: 22.7kg - 36.3kg) | Height: 127cm-145cm

Recommended for 3 years+

 Warranty: 6-month warranty against manufacturing defects 

IMPORTANT

• RideSafer meets the requirements of an approved child restraint as per the 2011 Singapore Road Traffic Rules, Wearing of Seat Belts and Approved Child Restraints Standards in Singapore. 
• Ride-hailing services like Grab and Uber cars are not exempt from the law requiring passengers under 1.35m to use an approved child restraint appropriate to their height and weight.
• RideSafer also complies with America's FMVSS 213 regulations which also meet the requirements of an approved child restraint in Singapore.
• RideSafer is a US-certified product
• RideSafer Gen 6 is not certified to Australian/New Zealand child-restraint standard AS/NZS 1754. It should not be used as a substitute for an approved child restraint where local regulations require one.

Fit 3 in a Row!

Best of all, RideSafer allows parents to easily fit three children in the back seat, side by side, with no crowding — and no complaining! No need to buy an expensive new car just to accommodate your car seats; RideSafer’s slim profile keeps kids safe and comfortable.

Better than a Booster
RideSafer is the safe alternative to a traditional booster car seat! The RideSafer vest can be tethered to your car for optimum upper body restraint and our unique, 3-clip design positions and secures the seat belt exactly where it needs to be for each specific child—across the lap, not the waist, protecting vital internal organs, and across the shoulders, not the neck, eliminating uncomfortable rubbing and dangerous ‘sneaky slipping’ of the shoulder harness behind the child.

The RideSafer padded vest also disperses crash energy across a larger area of the child’s chest than the standard 2” seatbelt and keeps the child’s center of mass lower and further back in the seat than a traditional toddler car seat, which has proven safer in the event of an accident.

And, while car seats are installed incorrectly 3 out of every 4 times, RideSafer’s easy, intuitive installation eliminates the risk of incorrect usage when moving from car to car, making RideSafer the safer choice.

Portable and Packable
No more juggling heavy, cumbersome car seats and boosters—or worse, going without a car seat when traveling! RideSafer is your safe, portable travel car seat solution. Small enough to fit in a backpack or suitcase, RideSafer is a great on-the-go solution for kids in boosters and forward-facing 5-point harness seats.

A RideSafer vest makes it easier to justify bringing along a child restraint for the few taxi rides a family needs to take to their destination. Even at a resort destination like Disney World or a cruise, you need a proper child restraint for the ride between the resort and the airport to keep your child safe.

Since the RideSafer Travel Vest is easy to install in all cars, it takes away the worry of not being able to correctly install an unknown car seat in an unknown car; a challenge when renting a car seat on your family vacation. Not to mention, you know where it’s been. Parents often report that the dirty car seat rental car companies
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Size Chart

The manufacturer emphasizes that fit and proper seat belt positioning  is most important. Remember proper fit means the lap portion is laying on the lap. 

Gen 6a = RideSafer vests manufactured before Aug. 2026 | Gen 6b = RideSafer vests manufactured after Aug. 2026 

In-between sizes?

If your child seems between sizes and you are using it with a lap-shoulder seat belt, look more at height, specifically torso height (see below for torso and waist measuring instructions). If your child seems to fall between 2 sizes, please choose the larger one. 

Getting into the vest

Now the only choice you have to make for your RideSafer Travel Vest is which size and color you want and whether or not you plan to use a tether with it. (We recommend using the tether in addition to the lap-shoulder belt for additional upper body restraint and support; especially for younger children — 3 to 5ish — or children with special needs to help keep them in proper pre-crash position.)

Put on the vest just like a jacket and attach the Velcro at the tummy. Buckle the strap by sliding the J-hook into the webbing on the other side. We just want a comfortable, neutral fit on the child. It does not need to be tight.

The function of the RideSafer is to position the vehicle’s seat belt. This makes the fit of the vest on the child secondary to how the seat belt is being positioned.

One thing to note, it is hard to get a good idea of the RideSafer fit when the child is standing. What we’re really looking for is how the vehicle seat belt is going to fit on the child and how the lap flap sits on the child’s lap when they are sitting.

Measure correct RideSafer fit in the car
Start by pulling the vest down whether with the crotch strap or having your child lean forward and pull the vest down at the sides and lean back again. This is what we taught our kids to do if the vest rides up.

If there is a large gap, have your child turn so you can adjust the back straps to make them shorter. You can adjust the straps as your child grows.

The manufacturer says it is OK to have a little gap at the shoulder as long as you have correct seat belt positioning. (The manufacturer did crash test the RideSafer with a gap at the shoulder.)

Buckle up the RideSafer
Your child can come out of the house and get into the car with the RideSafer on. Then you just need to put on the seat belt when you get to the car.

Bring the seat belt across and buckle it in, then slip the seat belt into the lap guides and shoulder guide.

We are looking for the lap flap of the RideSafer to lay flat on the child’s lap and the shoulder belt coming across midchest/midshoulder. This is correct seat belt fit with the RideSafer.

This is the function of the RideSafer vest; to position the vehicle’s seat belt. Very similar to a booster seat which elevates the child in order to accomplish correct seat belt fit, the RideSafer brings the seat belt down to fit the child.

This function is why it is OK to have a gap on the shoulder and to have the vest more loose than we are used to with a 5-point harness.

Using the tether
Connect the tether to the vest by clipping it to the tether points on the shoulders of the vest. Then connect the single end to the car’s tether anchor point. Tether anchors have been required in three vehicle positions since September 2000 so 2001 models or newer. You can look in your car’s manual if you don’t know where that is.

Pull your tether to be at a neutral tension. Using a tether helps keep the child in proper seating position pre crash. We recommend using for younger children, roughly age 3 to 5, or for super wiggly kids. It also offers additional upper body restraint and support, especially helpful for children with special needs.

This is proper RideSafer fit.

Safety Tested, Certified and Legal!
The RideSafer travel vest is designed for children ages 2 and up (Extra Small size onwards) and meets or exceeds all crash test requirements and Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for harness restraints (FMVSS213). In fact, the RideSafer consistently tests well below—sometimes by half or more!— the standard safety allowances.

FMVSS 213 is the federal standard which sets the performance criteria for child restraints. It requires that manufacturers measure crash energy at several different locations on an instrumented crash test dummy.

The RideSafer is tested as a harness as prescribed by FMVSS 213. 

Crash test videos are available here.

Gen 6 vs Gen 5: 

The manufacturer, Safe Traffic System, has been working very hard for the past year to bring Gen5 RideSafer Travel Vests to early compliance with FMVSS 213b. The amended standard that applies to harnesses will go into full effect on December 5, 2026. 

To stay within compliance with the new testing, labeling, instruction manual and customer registration requirements, they needed to make a substantial number of changes, so they decided to launch the new products as Generation 6 (Gen 6).

The most notable changes are listed below. 

• There are no noticeable structural changes. The main changes are the new weight and height requirements, which are now compliant with FMVSS 213b.
  
• All sizes will have new durable plastic (polycarbonate) belt guides instead of metal. The manufacturer started using these plastic guides with the XS vest when that size was released several years ago. And this past fall started switching other size vests to the plastic guides as well.
  • If you have inflatable seat belts, please do not use. 
• Due to new labeling and verbiage requirements, some of the labels had to be relocated to the front of the vests.
• Many changes to the instruction manual were made in response to the new requirements of 213b and updates to State laws. All 50 States in the US and all US Territories now require compliance with the verbiage in the definitions of 213b to define the specific child restraint system. Since we are defined as a "harness," we are required to complete all compliance testing with the tether and crotch strap.
  • Crotch strap attachment graphic and verbiages have been added to the Instruction Manuals.
  • We are permitted to run validation testing (to prove it works) in a configuration different from the required one, so we are continuing to test with and without the tether and crotch strap. We feel it is important to ensure the product can be used safely across seating positions, since not all seating positions are equipped with vehicle tether anchors, and some children do not tolerate the crotch strap. What is included in the new manuals is that we "strongly recommend that the tether and crotch strap be used whenever possible." 
    

Instructional Videos:

FAQs

What if I'm travelling internationally? Can I use the vest?
RideSafer vests are legal to use in all countries that recognize US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. They also hold compliance certification under China Compulsory Certification, Korean KCL and are permitted in Canada as CMVSS 213.3 custom restraints.

Restraints certified in the U.S. are usually not certified in other countries and visa versa as there are slightly different standards everywhere. Typically when traveling parents are allowed to bring in their usual child restraint. In our combined 25+ years as car seat technicians, we have not heard of anyone being ticketed for using a car seat from a different country while they were travelling.

No customers have ever reported having difficulty with using the RideSafer internationally. Though we do understand it may be a concern since the local authorities are likely not familiar with it. The RideSafer manufacturer shared this letter with us for people who take the RideSafer travelling internationally. If you decide to use the RideSafer on your international trip, perhaps bring a copy of this letter (click here) along. For specific countries, please see below.

Can I use this vest in Canada?

For Canadian residents: Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (CMVSS) do not address vests and harnesses for children being transported in motor vehicles. Since there are no prescribed protocols for testing, there is no opportunity for the manufacturer to seek the National Safety Mark (NSM). CMVSS 213.3 (501-523) does however, address custom restraint systems for children with special needs. (Information provided by Transport Canada and seen on their website under the “Special Needs” heading of the Safety Standards.)

It is with due diligence that we are informing you that Transport Canada (TC) permits the sale of our vests to Canadians under the CMVSS 213.3 provisions. We are required to notify you that a child should possess a prescription from a physician that states the Ride Safer Travel Vest is a more suitable option for the child being transported in the motor vehicle.

We do not need the prescription for the purchase, it would be for you to present should the legality ever be questioned during a traffic stop. An additional letter and prescription form should accompany your shipment. If for some reason our warehouse missed your order, please download a copy here.

For those travelling to Canada: Please see “What if I’m just travelling internationally?” above.

Can I use this vest in Europe?

For European residents: Technically the RideSafer vest has not been certified for use in Europe.

We used to have an EU version that came with a booster seat but the manufacturer did not certify more recent models. According to the manufacturer, RideSafer cannot be certified in Europe under Regulation 44 any more because the EU is implementing a new regulation known as r129. Unfortunately, Regulation 129 is still a work-in-progress and does not yet contain the test procedures for Group 3 restraints (harness/booster). The manufacturer needs to wait until the category is described and test procedures are finalized.

For people travelling to Europe: This version of the vest cannot be sold in Europe but can be used (with or without the booster) in Europe as long as the stay in the country is not extended beyond 6-12 months (country dependent). See also… “What if I’m traveling internationally?” in the top FAQ section.

Can I use the vest in the UK?

For UK residents: Technically the RideSafer Delight has not been certified for use in UK.

We used to have an EU version that came with a booster seat but the manufacturer made came out with the new model and has not yet certified it. We have been told the manufacturer will be certifying the RideSafer again, likely in combination with the Delighter Booster as Europe standards require a child be elevated. We do not know the time frame for this.

For those travelling to UK: Please see “What if I’m just traveling internationally?” above

Can I use the vest in Australia and New Zealand?

For residents of Australia and New Zealand: Unfortunately, the RideSafer Travel Vest is not currently approved for use in Australia nor is it labeled with the New Zealand “S” mark for use in New Zealand.

For those traveling to Australia or New Zealand: New Zealand Transport Agency says “if you’re bringing a child restraint with you into New Zealand it must comply with one of the following approved standards… • the American standard FMVSS 213…”
A couple of travel sources say, Australia only permits seats that are approved by Australia or New Zealand, even for short term visitors. Enforcement among tourists is unknown, though, all around enforcement has been increased since 2010. Rumor has it the requirement “is enforced in Victoria (Melbourne) and New South Wales (Sydney) even if your seat is considered perfectly safe in the US or Europe.” We’ve been unable to find an official website to substantiate enforcement for tourists.