For motion-averse passengers, enduring a rocky train ride in a seat facing backward can be a painfully nauseating experience.
After court recessed Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Dimitrius said Judge Coleman "has bent over backward" to seat impartial jurors.
If your hips rock from side to side while pedaling backward, the seat is too high.
The Flyer chair, designed by Dominique Houriet, a San Diego architect, has square lines, but the backward-canted seat offers the sensation of flight — specifically, takeoff.
Other unusual airplane seating plans include another Airbus patent for "motorcycle-type saddles," and Zodiac Aerospace's concept design of alternate forward and backward facing seats in a honeycomb-like arrangement".
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The researchers suggested that perhaps higher commuter train speeds made backward-facing seats "more nauseating" on the railroad than on the subway.
A limit for transverse (forward- or backward-facing) seats was given as 2.45 m/s2, well above the guidelines for standing passengers, but a lower limit of 1.4 m/s2 was given for longitudinal (side-facing) seats.
Convertible seats can face forward or backward, and can usually accommodate a child up to 40 lb.
